Lioprosopa rhodobaphella or nearby species

Melba, ACT

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Identification history

Lioprosopa rhodobaphella or nearby species	31 Mar 2021	ibaird
Lioprosopa rhodobaphella or nearby species	31 Mar 2021	GlennCocking
Phycitinae (subfamily)	26 Mar 2021	donhe
Hednota species near grammellus	7 Feb 2021	donhe
Unidentified	7 Feb 2021	Bron

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9 comments

GlennCocking wrote:

26 Mar 2021

This is a Phycitinae, possibly genus Emmalocera or Heosphora, although the candidate species that I have seen all have a broad light costa that does not appear in this photo.

GlennCocking wrote:

29 Mar 2021

I think the light costa is very subdued in this specimen

donhe wrote:

29 Mar 2021

Emmalocera (Enosima) leucotaeniella (Ragonot, 1888) appears to be a tropical species. The photos in
https://w3.ual.es/personal/edana/bot/mh/complemento/docufijos/echinocb.pdf
do not look much like those of 4370501.

ibaird wrote:

29 Mar 2021

This species does not appear on Bold Systems, ALA or iNaturalist apparently so I have no similarly labelled image except Google generated images to compare this suggestion with.

GlennCocking wrote:

29 Mar 2021

Yes, I was right off course there. I saw an example of a subdued light costa and jumped the wrong way. Will delete the suggestion.

GlennCocking wrote:

31 Mar 2021

I overlooked Lioprosopa genus, which has some moths akin to Emmalocera and Heosphora. The record may well be Lioprosopa rhodbaphella itself, but I'm not aware of any southern records.

ibaird wrote:

31 Mar 2021

Looking at Bold Systems 4 it looks more likely.

KimPullen wrote:

10 Nov 2021

AFD has the species name as 'rhodobaphella'.

ibaird wrote:

10 Nov 2021

Sp. corrected.

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