Sighting 4691857
Hypertrophidae (family)
Unidentified Twig Moth at Jerrabomberra, NSW
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| Hypertrophidae (family) | ibaird | 2 Sep 2025 | |
| Hypertrophidae (family) | donhe | 31 Aug 2025 | |
| Unverified | DianneClarke | 30 Aug 2025 |
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User's notes
In custody and it now now seems to building some webbing inbetween 2 leaves.
5 comments
30 Aug 2025
looking at the 'cubby' in your first picture, it could be a hypertrophid. In my experience they only take a month or so to pupate & emerge.
31 Aug 2025
A 'month' or two ) presume! (Says he who often peppers his comments with 'typos').
Location information
- Coordinates 149.205819-35.374425
- Maps Mount Jerrabomberra QP
- Places Jerrabomberra, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 30 Aug 2025 04:23 PM Recorded on
- DianneClarke Recorded by
- Eucalyptus polyanthemos Associated plant
- Found on the same leaf as Uraba lugens. Associated animal
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
Collections
- DianneClarke NatureMapr Canberra & Southern Tablelands Hypertrophidae sp. (family) Curved-horn moths (all Gelechioidea except Oecophoridae) Moths (Lepidoptera) Insects
Species information
- Hypertrophidae (family) Scientific name
- Unidentified Twig Moth Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 757.61m Recorded at altitude
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Record quality
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5 / 7
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