A Wood moth at O'Connor, ACT
Identification history
| Culama glauca | 27 Jan 2024 | ibaird | ||
| Culama glauca | 27 Jan 2024 | donhe | ||
| Culama suffusca | 11 Nov 2020 | ibaird |
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User's notes
Attracted to UV light at night (50w Gecko)
2 comments
ibaird
wrote:
11 Nov 2020
I suggest C. suffusca assumung 'a double grey tuft tipped with grey' (LBH) is diagnotic, however I note the similiarity with C. australis ( 'very éasily confused with other similar moths', Zborowski and Edwards, 2007) and the similarity with Macrocytarra spp. e.g M. pamphaea.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.113328-35.259673
- Altitude 584.6m
- Places O'Connor, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 10 Nov 2020 10:28 PM Recorded on
- ibaird Recorded by
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Insects Moths (Lepidoptera) Wood moths (Cossidae) ibaird Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Culama glauca
Additional information
- 25mm to 50mm Animal size
Species information
- Culama glauca Scientific name
- A Wood moth Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 655.6m Recorded at altitude
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