Meyriccia latro
Pyralid moth at Captains Flat, NSW
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| Meyriccia latro | donhe | 30 Jan 2024 | |
| Telocharacta metachroa | donhe | 26 Jan 2024 | |
| Meyriccia latro | Csteele4 | 26 Jan 2024 |
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Attracted to verandah light.
4 comments
30 Jan 2024
Was it really this yellowish colour? M. latro is usually brownish in appearance. I think the lack of upturned, backward pointing palps mitgates against it being T. metachroa.
30 Jan 2024
If it held its palps together, and they were upturned as in Gelechiiod moths , in a dorsal photo such as these: they would appear as a single proboscis. I can only find pure yellow moths in Oecophoridae.
30 Jan 2024
30 Jan 2024
See sighting 4424412. M. lattro seems to vary a lot in colouring in photos from yellow to grey to pinkish brown depending on the lighting. This moth has an extended proboscis, 'fluted'' forewing outer margins as seen in several M. lattro examples and a fine black dotted line parallel with the forewing termen as also seen in fresh examples and in sighting 4424412. Large black eyes just visible in the 3rd photo.
Location information
- Places Captains Flat, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- Csteele4 Recorded by
- Alive / healthy Animal health
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
- No Insect on a flower
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- Csteele4 NatureMapr Canberra & Southern Tablelands Pyralid or Snout Moths (Pyralidae & Crambidae) Moths (Lepidoptera) Insects Meyriccia latro
Species information
- Meyriccia latro Scientific name
- Pyralid moth Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 636.8m Recorded at altitude
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