caterpillar or pupa or cocoon at Braddon, ACT
Identification history
| Hypertrophidae (family) | 10 Oct 2025 | WendyEM | ||
| Lepidoptera unclassified IMMATURE | 9 Oct 2025 | ibaird | ||
| Lepidoptera unclassified IMMATURE | 9 Oct 2025 | Hejor1 |
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User's notes
collected on a leaf with hypertrophidae shelters, but this one isnt intetested in the shelters at all
1 comment
WendyEM
wrote:
10 Oct 2025
I raised one looking very like this whose shelter was a totally frass? covered and enclosed (not 'bead work' on an open weave shelter like some we have seen lately) so my fella had a brown covering ('tent') on part of the leaf it was eating
Location information
- Coordinates 149.134747-35.261331
- Altitude 574.4m
- Maps City Renewal Authority Area
- Places Braddon, ACT
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- 9 Oct 2025 06:53 PM Recorded on
- Hejor1 Recorded by
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Collections
Hejor1 NatureMapr Canberra & Southern Tablelands Lepidoptera unclassified IMMATURE Other moths Moths (Lepidoptera) Insects
Additional information
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
Species information
- Lepidoptera unclassified IMMATURE Scientific name
- caterpillar or pupa or cocoon Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1191m Recorded at altitude
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Synonyms
Lepidoptera sp.
Record quality
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- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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