Epipaschiinae immature unidentifiedspecies
subfamily at Jerrabomberra, NSW
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| Epipaschiinae immature unidentifiedspecies | donhe | 2 Feb 2025 | |
| Epipaschiinae immature unidentifiedspecies | WendyEM | 2 Feb 2025 | |
| Spectrotrota fimbrialis | WendyEM | 1 Feb 2025 | |
| Unverified | DianneClarke | 31 Jan 2025 |
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5 comments
1 Feb 2025
Thanks Wendy - that looks like it and there are a lot of the moths around at the moment.
1 Feb 2025
I think that probably the caterpillars of a lot of Epipaschiinae look like this. So few have been reared. Hope you can rear it to confirm it.
2 Feb 2025
OK, I have now found this in Caterpillars, Moths and their plants of southeastern Australia by Peter McQuillan, Jan Forrest, David Keane & Roger Grund. 2019 Publ. Butterfly Conservation South Australia p. 79 They raised Salma pyrastis from a caterpillar looking the same as this. Food plants were recorded as 2 Eucalyptus sp
Location information
- Places Jerrabomberra, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- DianneClarke Recorded by
- Eucalypt. Leaf partially curled with some webbing over the larvae Associated plant
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
- Alive / healthy Animal health
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- DianneClarke NatureMapr Canberra & Southern Tablelands Pyralid or Snout Moths (Pyralidae & Crambidae) Moths (Lepidoptera) Insects Epipaschiinae immature unidentifiedspecies
Species information
- Epipaschiinae immature unidentifiedspecies Scientific name
- subfamily Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 597.2m Recorded at altitude
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