Sighting 4596731
1 Ratoon Shootborer at Harrison, ACT
Identification history
| Ephysteris promptella | 27 Sep 2024 | ibaird | ||
| Ephysteris promptella | 27 Sep 2024 | donhe | ||
| Megacraspedus popularis | 26 Sep 2024 | WendyEM | ||
| Unidentified | 26 Sep 2024 | DPRees125 |
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User's notes
Not sure of this, cannot find anything like it, very cyptic against the brick
5 comments
WendyEM
wrote:
26 Sep 2024
https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimens.php?taxid=370024
ANICX1562-11 has the white patches either end of postmedial region. None show banded palps
OR maybe Ephysteris promptella
ANICX1562-11 has the white patches either end of postmedial region. None show banded palps
OR maybe Ephysteris promptella
ibaird
wrote:
26 Sep 2024
Looks similar to Tuta absoluta, the Tomato Leafminer, an exotic pest of tomatoes (suggested by iNaturalist).
ibaird
wrote:
26 Sep 2024
Or Pycnobathra popularis (Australian Faunal Directory). I'm not sure the palps striping of this specimen matches M. popularis.
ibaird
wrote:
26 Sep 2024
I think Ephysteris promptella is likely, but I see few images online to compare it with.
DPRees125
wrote:
26 Sep 2024
Ian I see what you mean abiout Tuta, which is not suposed to be in Oz, If its in Canberra on a wet night in early spring where there are no tomatoes about, then its everywhere!! Ephysteris promptella looks possible
Location information
- Places Harrison, ACT
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- 25 Sep 2024 08:28 PM Recorded on
- DPRees125 Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Curved-horn moths (all Gelechioidea except Oecophoridae) Moths (Lepidoptera) DPRees125 Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
- Alive / healthy Animal health
Species information
- Ephysteris promptella Scientific name
- Ratoon Shootborer Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Exotic
- Medium weed or pest
- Up to 593m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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- More than one media file
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