Phylomictis sarcinopa at Ainslie, ACT

A Concealer moth at Ainslie, ACT

Request use of media

Identification history

Phylomictis sarcinopa	22 Jan 2021	GlennCocking
Phylomictis sp. (genus)	22 Dec 2020	donhe
Phylomictis lintearia	5 Nov 2020	ibaird
Phylomictis lintearia	5 Nov 2020	jbromilow50

Identify this sighting

Please Login or Register to identify this sighting.

Author's notes

Looks very much like Stenomatinae; Phylomictis lintearia to me.

2 comments

GlennCocking wrote:

22 Dec 2020

I've only seen three specimens of Phylomictis lintearia, all from the ACT. See also Phylomictis sarcinopa, for which I've seen many specimens from the NSW south and central coast. But P. sarcinopa seems to match this photo better, particularly the areas of light scales on the forewing.

ibaird wrote:

22 Dec 2020

These are very similar looking moths with apparenyly overlapping distributions and reatively few samples of either for comparrison. I find it difficult to be convinced one way or the other, though perhps the thorax area mrkings favour P. sarcinopa but I'm not really sure becouse ALA photis of P. linteraria seem to me to have very simialr markings.

Please Login or Register to comment.