A porela moth at Kambah, ACT
Identification history
| Porela (genus) | 22 Feb 2024 | ibaird | ||
| Porela (genus) | 22 Feb 2024 | donhe | ||
| Lasiocampidae (family) immature | 22 Feb 2024 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Unidentified | 14 Feb 2024 | GirtsO |
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User's notes
not sure where it came from, was digging out a root , without any vegetation around except grass. Alive and well.
1 comment
donhe
wrote:
22 Feb 2024
The pair of black stripes on the "face" is characteristic of Porela species. I hope you can rear it to an adult to determine which species it is, though we can tell it is not P. delineata or P. cinerea, there are still 13 other named Australian Porela species it could be.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.059063-35.394376
- Altitude 625.9m
- Places Kambah, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 14 Feb 2024 11:26 AM Recorded on
- GirtsO Recorded by
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Insects Other moths Moths (Lepidoptera) GirtsO
Species information
- Porela (genus) Scientific name
- A porela moth Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 728.28m Recorded at altitude
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