Trigonocyttara clandestina
Less-stick Case Moth at Franklin, ACT
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| Trigonocyttara clandestina | ibaird | 11 Jan 2025 | |
| Trigonocyttara clandestina | donhe | 11 Jan 2025 | |
| Lepidoscia (genus) IMMATURE | ibaird | 8 Nov 2024 | |
| Conoeca or Lepidoscia (genera) IMMATURE | chriselidie | 7 Nov 2024 |
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Found on plant, not seen feeding yet.
7 comments
7 Nov 2024
It has started eating now: ignored the foliage and eats all parts of the flower.
8 Nov 2024
black and white pattern on head an thorax : consistent with Lepidoscia, not Conoeca.
8 Nov 2024
@chriselidie : any chance you can take it into protective custody and rear it to an adult moth to get a proper ID ?
8 Nov 2024
Thanks donhe, and yes I have taken it in - will see what happens next. I read though that often females of these can't be observed as they remain in the case their whole life?
8 Nov 2024
If it is the Australian Conoeca species, and for several Lepidoscia species, both the females and males have wings, and emerge from the case.
10 Jan 2025
Caterpillar of moth in sighting 4636716. This was confirmed as Trigonocyttara clandestina.
Location information
- Places Franklin, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- chriselidie Recorded by
- Geraldton Wax Associated plant
- None Associated animal
- 25mm to 50mm Animal size
- Unknown Gender
- Larvae Breeding behaviour
- Alive / healthy Animal health
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Species information
- Trigonocyttara clandestina Scientific name
- Less-stick Case Moth Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 813.69m Recorded at altitude
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