Sighting 4559468
Ardozyga (genus)
Twirler moth (Gelechioidae at Harrison, ACT
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| Ardozyga catarrhacta | donhe | 12 Mar 2024 | |
| Ardozyga catarrhacta | DianneClarke | 12 Mar 2024 | |
| Ardozyga stratifera | DPRees125 | 11 Mar 2024 |
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at light
6 comments
11 Mar 2024
Anyone any suggestions on how to distinguish A. stratifera from A. catarrhacta please ?
11 Mar 2024
Looking on iNaturalist suggests to me that in plan view from above A. catarrhacta presents as more of a constricted 'vase' shape (black vase, white field); whereas A. stratifera is more linear ie as the name suggests: ie. A. stratifera. Paradoxically that analysis tends to suggest to me this is A. catarrhacta rather than A. stratifera.
12 Mar 2024
I have been working on the assumption that A. stratifera has a more solid brown line along the outer wing margin rather than ticks. Just to confuse matters further there also is A. mesochra. I found this on iNat:
"In A. catarrhacta the palps are pure white and the front legs are striped.
In A.stratifera the palps are white but tipped black and front leg white.
In A.mesochroa the palps are white but tipped black and front leg striped but mostly black." https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/147657317
"In A. catarrhacta the palps are pure white and the front legs are striped.
In A.stratifera the palps are white but tipped black and front leg white.
In A.mesochroa the palps are white but tipped black and front leg striped but mostly black." https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/147657317
12 Mar 2024
if it helps I have put a close up of the front of the moth - palps are clearly light and the legs are striped
Location information
- Places Harrison, ACT
Sighting information
- 4 - 15 Abundance
- DPRees125 Recorded by
- Less than 5mm Animal size
- Alive / healthy Animal health
Collections
- DPRees125 Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Ardozyga (genus) Curved-horn moths (all Gelechioidea except Oecophoridae) Moths (Lepidoptera) Insects
Species information
- Ardozyga (genus) Scientific name
- Twirler moth (Gelechioidae Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 670.3m Recorded at altitude
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