caterpillar or pupa or cocoon at Queanbeyan West, NSW
Identification history
| Lepidoptera unclassified IMMATURE | 5 May 2021 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Lepidoptera unclassified IMMATURE | 20 Mar 2021 | donhe | ||
| Abantiades atripalpis | 19 Mar 2021 | RodDeb |
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User's notes
just a guess
3 comments
donhe
wrote:
20 Mar 2021
Abantiades atripalpis larvae live in tunnels in the ground feeding on roots, and pupate in their tunnel, and then for the moth to emerge, they half extrude the pupal skin from the hole in ground where they lived. Many other moth species pupate in the soil, many others in the crannies, and many others in rolled leaves.
GlennCocking
wrote:
20 Mar 2021
Do you think the pupa was fixed at the rear to the leaf, or was it just lying loose? It fixed, do you know the plant? How long was the pupa?
RodDeb
wrote:
20 Mar 2021
sorry don't know to all, was photographing plants there for MichaelM and noticed it in the photograph later.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.199415-35.366082
- Altitude 612.5m
- Maps Queanbeyan Nature Reserve
- Places Queanbeyan West, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 19 Mar 2021 03:50 PM Recorded on
- RodDeb Recorded by
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Insects Moths (Lepidoptera) Other moths RodDeb Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- 50mm or larger Animal size
Species information
- Lepidoptera unclassified IMMATURE Scientific name
- caterpillar or pupa or cocoon Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1191m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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