Crypsiphona ocultaria
2 Red-lined Looper Moth at Nicholls, ACT
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| Crypsiphona ocultaria | WendyEM | 23 Nov 2025 | |
| Crypsiphona ocultaria | Hejor1 | 23 Nov 2025 | |
| Geometrinae (subfamily) | ibaird | 24 Aug 2025 | |
| Geometrinae (subfamily) | WendyEM | 24 Aug 2025 | |
| Geometridae (family) IMMATURE | Hejor1 | 24 Aug 2025 |
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Collected, will do my best to rear it.
12 comments
29 Aug 2025
30 Aug 2025
Different instars (growth stages/moults) or lep larvae can look very different (colour, markings etc) , all part of the fun and games IDing them. I am interested in your outcome as I have some ???s that look like your latest fellas. Well done. This raising bizzo is tricky. Thankfully geometrids like this can be fairly quick to pupate to moths! Some moths can pupate for a months/year etc. Often these, if you succeed in not rotting/dehydrating/killing them, but are not incredibly organised an check them every day (for a year plus) you can find a very damaged dead moth that has tried to escape. (I have done all of these) Many moths when they emerge, need a stick to climb up and hang from, with enough space, so they can inflate/expand their wings, which are all crumpled up in the pupal case. I think the bottom pointing out thing on 1st pic may have been its legs held together and forward.
30 Aug 2025
Was it simply just another smaller larval individual attached to its larger companion?
30 Aug 2025
@ibaird the first pic was taken when I found it so there could have been something attached or being held by it. Curious!
30 Aug 2025
@WendyEM it's heartening to know I'm not the only one who has had tragic missteps when trying to rear them. This season I'm going to collect fewer of them so I can focus more effort on each individual.
30 Aug 2025
I was trying to work out which larva on planted Melaleuca armillaris turned into Poecilasthena scoliota, a moth species which at the time of production of Moths Of Vic. Part 3, had not been recorded by the author, supporters, ANIC or Museum Vic. I collected 2 distinct types of caterpillars. Ended up with 3 or 4 sp of moths. Some were hiding in the plant material I fed my fellas I presume.
28 Sep 2025
24 Nov 2025
Great work! You have confirmed a long standing former suggestion of mine elsewhere based on a somewhat inconclusive photo on LBH. See here:-
https://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/geom/ocultaria.html
https://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/geom/ocultaria.html
Location information
- Coordinates 149.101347-35.183878
- Altitude 582.6m
- Places Nicholls, ACT
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- 28 Sep 2025 01:10 PM Recorded on
- Hejor1 Recorded by
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
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- Hejor1 NatureMapr Canberra & Southern Tablelands Crypsiphona ocultaria Featured Geometer moths (Geometridae) Moths (Lepidoptera) Insects
Species information
- Crypsiphona ocultaria Scientific name
- Red-lined Looper Moth Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 882.3m Recorded at altitude
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