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Pyralid or Snout Moths (Pyralidae & Crambidae)
Sighting 4379295

Scoparia anthracomochla

1 A Crambid moth (Scopariinae at Melba, ACT

Scoparia anthracomochla at Melba, ACT - 16 Apr 2021 06:42 PM
Scoparia anthracomochla at Melba, ACT - 16 Apr 2021 06:42 PM
Scoparia anthracomochla at Melba, ACT - 16 Apr 2021 06:42 PM
Scoparia anthracomochla at Melba, ACT - 16 Apr 2021 06:42 PM
Scoparia anthracomochla at Melba, ACT - 16 Apr 2021 06:42 PM
Scoparia anthracomochla at Melba, ACT - 16 Apr 2021 06:42 PM
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Identification history

Scoparia anthracomochla 19 Jun 2025 ibaird
Scoparia anthracomochla 18 Jun 2025 WendyEM
Scoparia oxygona 30 Jun 2022 ibaird
Hednota pedionoma 2 Jun 2022 GlennCocking
Scoparia (genus) 1 May 2022 donhe
Achyra affinitalis 19 Apr 2021 kasiaaus

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ibaird noted:

19 Jun 2025

Scoparia anthracomochla https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimens.php?taxid=449731 above moth is a very good fit with the 3 moths on that page (from NSW) this is very annoying as this name does not occur on AFD, ALA or the 'Checklist' (Mon. Aus. Lep. Vol.4) Google AI said it is also known as S. ochrophara which is not on BOLD and the online examples on ALA are different to above.

8 comments

ibaird wrote:
   12 May 2021
Scoparia oxygona? See sighting No. 4378988.
kasiaaus wrote:
   30 Apr 2022
I don't think this looks like Scoparia oxygona but I can't find a match. Sighting 4378988 looks the same.
donhe wrote:
   1 May 2022
The main pattern looks good, but the alternating dark and pale patches along the costa and hind margin of S. oxygona are missing in this specimen.
ibaird wrote:
   2 Jun 2022
I;m not sure it mtaches H. pedionoma either.
donhe wrote:
   2 Jun 2022
It does not look like H. pedionoma to me either.
GlennCocking wrote:
   30 Jun 2022
I thought it was one of the forms of H. pedionoma, but it doesn't have any sign of the white spot that seems to be in all H. pedinoma one way or another. Perhaps Katarina was right in the first place, but the palpi look to long for Achyra.
WendyEM wrote:
   18 Jun 2025
Scoparia anthracomochla
https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimens.php?taxid=449731
above moth is a very good fit with the 3 moths on that page (from NSW)
this is very annoying as this name does not occur on AFD, ALA or the 'Checklist' (Mon. Aus. Lep. Vol.4) Google AI said it is also known as S. ochrophara which is not on BOLD and the online examples on ALA are different to above.
ibaird wrote:
   19 Jun 2025
Mm,, well spotted WendyEm. It's uncertain as to this moth's status. Good match to the Bold HoBern images thpugh,

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