Phylomictis sarcinopa

A Stenomatidae moth at Ainslie, ACT

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Identification history

Phylomictis sarcinopa	22 Jan 2021	GlennCocking
Unverified	22 Dec 2020	donhe
Unverified	5 Nov 2020	ibaird
Phylomictis lintearia	5 Nov 2020	jb2602

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Looks very much like Stenomatinae; Phylomictis lintearia to me.

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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.

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Location information

Coordinates 149.152048 -35.259169
Places Ainslie, ACT

Sighting information

1 Abundance
4 Nov 2020 11:46 AM Recorded on
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Insects Curved-horn moths (all Gelechioidea except Oecophoridae) Moths (Lepidoptera) jb2602 Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr

Additional information

5mm to 12mm Animal size

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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