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Identification history
| Doratifera oxleyi | 15 Jan 2025 | donhe | ||
| Limacodidae (family) | 15 Jan 2025 | donhe | ||
| Pseudanapaea (genus) | 15 Jan 2025 | clarehoneydove |
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3 comments
donhe
wrote:
15 Jan 2025
This certainly lokks like the larva of a Limacodidae species, but it does not resemble any of the larvae of the 20 Limacocidae species illustrated at
http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/lima/lima-cats.html
It does not resemble the Pseudanapaea larvae shown there, as those larvae have no stinging spines.
It is probably the larva of one of the other 96 Australian Limacdidae species.
@clarehoneydove : I do hope you can rear it in protective custody to get an adult moth to ID the species.
http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/lima/lima-cats.html
It does not resemble the Pseudanapaea larvae shown there, as those larvae have no stinging spines.
It is probably the larva of one of the other 96 Australian Limacdidae species.
@clarehoneydove : I do hope you can rear it in protective custody to get an adult moth to ID the species.
donhe
wrote:
15 Jan 2025
On second thoughts, the thoracic shield does look like that of Doratifera oxleyi, which does have variable colours. I am thinking now that this is D oxleyi.
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