Sighting 4369550
A Cosmet moth at Melba, ACT
Identification history
| Macrobathra desmotoma | 3 Mar 2021 | GlennCocking | ||
| Macrobathra aphristis | 1 Feb 2021 | donhe | ||
| Macrobathra aphristis | 1 Feb 2021 | ibaird | ||
| Macrobathra (genus) | 1 Feb 2021 | ibaird | ||
| Macrobathra heminephela | 1 Feb 2021 | donhe | ||
| Unidentified | 1 Feb 2021 | kasiaaus |
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3 comments
ibaird
wrote:
1 Feb 2021
I think the second band is too wide for M. heminophela. Will look on Bold Systems 4.
ibaird
wrote:
1 Feb 2021
I suggest M. aphristis. See: https://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:da99a129-09d5-43fd-afe2-4502289a28ef
http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Public_SearchTerms?query=%22Macrobathra%20aphristis%22[tax]
Several photos of ANIC records for the ACT shown on Bold Sytems 4.
http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Public_SearchTerms?query=%22Macrobathra%20aphristis%22[tax]
Several photos of ANIC records for the ACT shown on Bold Sytems 4.
GlennCocking
wrote:
3 Mar 2021
This is a battered specimen of the common M. desmotona. M. aphristis is probably a much less common and northern moth. There is a nest of issues raised in BOLD around M. aphristis, callispila, crocosema and desmotona that I haven't tried to get on top of, but if you look at the M. aphristis specimens in Ian's second link above, the ACT ones mostly (with one exception!) look like CNM's longstanding M. desmotona. (The first link shows iNAT's single M. aphristis specimen which also looks like another desmotoma. INAT has many M. desmotoma)
Location information
- Coordinates 149.049963-35.208570
- Altitude 580.7m
- Places Melba, ACT
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- 20 Jan 2021 11:32 PM Recorded on
- kasiaaus Recorded by
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Insects Moths (Lepidoptera) Curved-horn moths (all Gelechioidea except Oecophoridae) kasiaaus Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
Species information
- Macrobathra desmotoma Scientific name
- A Cosmet moth Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 804.5m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
- External link More information
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- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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