Faveria tritalis
Couchgrass Webworm at Melba, ACT
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| Faveria tritalis | ibaird | 12 Mar 2025 | |
| Faveria tritalis | kasiaaus | 12 Mar 2025 | |
| Unverified | kasiaaus | 9 Mar 2025 |
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About 10mm
6 comments
12 Mar 2025
Meyrick's description should be enough :
http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/blad/characta10.jpg
http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/blad/characta10.jpg
12 Mar 2025
Thanks Don. I find the description very hard to interpret. I'm not convinced, although I would like it to match :-)
12 Mar 2025
Is it one of the pattern forms of Faveria tritalis? The palpi are correct for that.
12 Mar 2025
I think you may be right Glenn. It seems too pretty to be Faveria tritalis but nevertheless it probably is.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.050289-35.208576
- Altitude 593.0m
- Places Melba, ACT
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- 6 Mar 2025 09:25 PM Recorded on
- kasiaaus Recorded by
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
- Alive / healthy Animal health
Collections
- kasiaaus NatureMapr Canberra & Southern Tablelands Faveria tritalis Pyralid or Snout Moths (Pyralidae & Crambidae) Moths (Lepidoptera) Insects
Species information
- Faveria tritalis Scientific name
- Couchgrass Webworm Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1629m Recorded at altitude
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