Leafy Case Moth at Hawker, ACT
Identification history
| Hyalarcta huebneri | 9 Feb 2024 | ibaird | ||
| Hyalarcta huebneri | 8 Feb 2024 | donhe | ||
| Psychidae (family) IMMATURE | 8 Feb 2024 | DianneClarke | ||
| Unverified | 8 Feb 2024 | sangio7 |
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User's notes
It spent a couple of days crawling up and down the window.
2 comments
donhe
wrote:
8 Feb 2024
Offer it a variety of leaves from various plant families : like see if it prefers gum or wattle or grevillia or dandelions. Can you add a photo of it's head and thorax as it crawls?
sangio7
wrote:
8 Feb 2024
Unfortunately it has now (sensibly) got tired of climbing up and down the window and vanished :-(
Location information
- Places Hawker, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
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sangio7 Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Hyalarcta huebneri Case moths (Psychidae) Moths (Lepidoptera) Insects
Additional information
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
- Alive / healthy Animal health
Species information
- Hyalarcta huebneri Scientific name
- Leafy Case Moth Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1495.3m Recorded at altitude
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- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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