Lomera zophopepla
Bungendore, NSW
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| Lomera zophopepla | ibaird | 27 Dec 2024 | |
| Lomera zophopepla | clarehoneydove | 27 Dec 2024 | |
| Psychidae (family) IMMATURE | clarehoneydove | 27 Dec 2024 |
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6 comments
29 Dec 2024
I have added a copy of one of your excellent photos to
http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/psyc/zophopepla.html
I hope that is OK?
May I ask on what plant was it feeding?
http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/psyc/zophopepla.html
I hope that is OK?
May I ask on what plant was it feeding?
29 Dec 2024
@donhe always welcome to use but can send you better quality images and a video if you want it. I think it is feeding on Dillwynia sericea. I will also have you know I collected it and released it when I saw it was identifiable.
29 Dec 2024
Could you check the plant please? It is a different plant family to that of the one I reared, so it may be omnivorous, unlike many moth caterpillars that only feed on plants in one family.
Also: yours might be a female, and I think that there are no published photos of her, so I think it would be useful to rear it to the adult. Also you would be saving it from near certain premature death.
Also: yours might be a female, and I think that there are no published photos of her, so I think it would be useful to rear it to the adult. Also you would be saving it from near certain premature death.
29 Dec 2024
Hi @donhe this is along my driveway so I will pop the plant up for i.d. and get it checked. I released her yesterday nooo
10 Jan 2025
Hi @donhe I have confirmed the plant is Dillwynia sericea by putting up on CNM after I found another L. Zophopepla on it. I have now sighted about 5 on this plant species.
Location information
- Places Bungendore, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- clarehoneydove Recorded by
- 50mm or larger Animal size
Collections
- clarehoneydove Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Lomera zophopepla Case moths (Psychidae) Moths (Lepidoptera) Insects
Species information
- Lomera zophopepla Scientific name
- Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 812m Recorded at altitude
- External link More information
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5 / 7
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