Sighting 4355312
Phylomictis sarcinopa
A Stenomatidae moth at Ainslie, ACT
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| Phylomictis sarcinopa | GlennCocking | 22 Jan 2021 | |
| Unverified | donhe | 22 Dec 2020 | |
| Unverified | ibaird | 5 Nov 2020 | |
| Phylomictis lintearia | jb2602 | 5 Nov 2020 |
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User's notes
Looks very much like Stenomatinae; Phylomictis lintearia to me.
2 comments
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.
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.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.152048-35.259169
- Places Ainslie, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 4 Nov 2020 11:46 AM Recorded on
- jb2602 Recorded by
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
Collections
- Insects Curved-horn moths (all Gelechioidea except Oecophoridae) Moths (Lepidoptera) jb2602 Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Phylomictis sarcinopa
Species information
- Phylomictis sarcinopa Scientific name
- A Stenomatidae moth Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 619.3m Recorded at altitude
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