Yellow-spotted Epicoma Moth at Hawker, ACT
Identification history
| Epicoma contristis | 26 Jan 2022 | ibaird | ||
| Epicoma contristis | 26 Jan 2022 | AlisonMilton |
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User's notes
These were mating when I first saw them but by the time I went home and came back with my camera, they had understandably, finished.
3 comments
ibaird
wrote:
26 Jan 2022
The lighter coloured female? corresponds with Donald Hobern's photo of a similar mating pair, see here: https://biocache.ala.org.au/occurrences/fb570da3-6815-4fdf-8c3f-ebd258803be6
donhe
wrote:
26 Jan 2022
The pale one in Hobern's sighting is not as pale as the very pale one in this sighting. There are no very pale ones on BOLD's E. contristis page, but there is on their E. tristis page. Donovan's original drawings of E. tristis have the very pale one a male, see
https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/PPN604733704?tify=%7B%22pages%22:%5B154%5D%7D
https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/PPN604733704?tify=%7B%22pages%22:%5B154%5D%7D
Location information
- Coordinates 149.034410-35.245538
- Altitude 621.4m
- Places Hawker, ACT
Sighting information
- 2 Abundance
- 26 Jan 2022 11:47 AM Recorded on
- AlisonMilton Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Noctuoid moths (except Arctiinae) Moths (Lepidoptera) AlisonMilton Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
- Mixed Gender
- Breeding behaviour Breeding behaviour
Species information
- Epicoma contristis Scientific name
- Yellow-spotted Epicoma Moth Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1368.8m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
- External link More information
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- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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