Fraus fusca
1 Mountain Fraus at Namadgi National Park
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| Fraus fusca | donhe | 10 Apr 2024 | |
| Fraus fusca | MichaelBedingfield | 10 Apr 2024 | |
| Fraus (genus) | ibaird | 9 Apr 2024 | |
| Fraus fusca | GlennCocking | 21 Feb 2021 | |
| Unverified | Christine | 21 Feb 2021 |
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User's notes
Photos of two different individuals, but i assume same species. Quite a few of these flying around.
4 comments
21 Feb 2021
Fraus fusca has many records from ACT and southern tablelands. Fraus crocea is more from the coast and nearby mountains. Fraus fusca is rich brown in colour (photo 2 has natural colours, the others are overlaid pinkish) with a solid discal spot (photos three and four. Fraus crocea is usually more reddish brown and with a light centre to the discal spot.
21 Feb 2021
Hi Christine,
Just to let you know that I added a copy of one of your photos from this sighting to our webpage
http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/hepi/fusca.html
Hope you approve?,
Don
Just to let you know that I added a copy of one of your photos from this sighting to our webpage
http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/hepi/fusca.html
Hope you approve?,
Don
9 Apr 2024
This record has been, I believe, correctly identified as Fraus fusca but Fraus fusca is a species which should appear in the taxonomy as Hepialidae not in Other Moths. I need the cooperation of another Moth Moderator to solve this problem, I have suggested (above) this record's ID sould be Fraus (genus), Another moth moderator can approve this interim ID now, after which the record and Fraus fusca may be deleted from 'Other moths' then a correct new taxon could created in Hepialidae for Fraus fusca. Do I have anaccomplice? If this doesn't work we will need to ask michaelb to fix this for us.
Location information
- Coordinates 148.768938-35.473185
- Maps Namadgi National Park
- Places Cotter River, ACT
Sighting information
- 4 - 15 Abundance
- 20 Feb 2021 10:59 AM Recorded on
- Christine Recorded by
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
Collections
- Insects Moths (Lepidoptera) Swift and Ghost moths (Hepialidae) Christine Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Fraus fusca
Species information
- Fraus fusca Scientific name
- Mountain Fraus Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1667.98m Recorded at altitude
- External link More information
Record quality
Quality score
5 / 7
- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Description
- Additional attributes
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location