Macadamia Flower Caterpillar at Melba, ACT
Identification history
| Homoeosoma vagella | 5 Jun 2022 | MichaelBedingfield | ||
| Homoeosoma vagella | 3 Feb 2021 | donhe | ||
| Homoeosoma vagella | 3 Feb 2021 | GlennCocking | ||
| Crocydopora cinigerella | 19 Jan 2021 | GlennCocking | ||
| Unidentified | 18 Jan 2021 | kasiaaus |
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2 comments
kasiaaus
wrote:
19 Jan 2021
This moth looks to me to be quite different to the other two previously identified as Crocydopora cinigerella.
GlennCocking
wrote:
21 Jan 2021
It is indeed, the palpi are quite wrong for that species. I jumped too quickly at the brown patch, which isn't the right form either. It's a different Phycitinae.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.050202-35.208637
- Altitude 596.4m
- Places Melba, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 - 3 Abundance
- 5 Jan 2021 11:16 PM Recorded on
- kasiaaus Recorded by
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Insects Moths (Lepidoptera) Pyralid or Snout Moths (Pyralidae & Crambidae) kasiaaus
Additional information
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
Species information
- Homoeosoma vagella Scientific name
- Macadamia Flower Caterpillar Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 655.3m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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