Oncopera rufobrunnea

Brown Corby at Boro, NSW

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Identification history

Oncopera rufobrunnea	3 Mar 2026	ibaird
Oncopera rufobrunnea	25 Feb 2026	WendyEM
Unverified	25 Feb 2026	Paul4K

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At window LED lights, kept overnight and laid eggs.

5 comments

WendyEM wrote:

25 Feb 2026

Was this one much bigger or smaller than the other Heps?

Paul4K wrote:

25 Feb 2026

Bigger.

ibaird wrote:

25 Feb 2026

The hairiness around the head and forelegs suggests Fraus (genus). A Fraus fusca female?
https://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/hepi/fusca.html

WendyEM wrote:

25 Feb 2026

I immediately thought Fraus but was not happy with any of the sp for matching the wing pattern. The specimens on Don's site do not have white spots like the above moth has. Also Kallies, A. et al in Moths of Victoria Part 6 CD p2/2 for that sp say it used to be found widely in eastern Victoria now mainly in the Alps above 1400m. Also if it is bigger than male Elhamma australasiae it way too big for any of the Fraus sp.
I have been considering Oncopera rufobrunnea
https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations?place_id=6744&quality_grade=research&taxon_id=892233

ibaird wrote:

25 Feb 2026

Yes, good suggestion, several O. rufobrunnea specimens a similar dot pattern. The difficulty here is the angle of the shots and the expected underlying mottled pattern is not obvious.

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Location information

Maps Boro
Places Boro, NSW

Sighting information

1 Abundance
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Paul4K NatureMapr Canberra & Southern Tablelands Swift and Ghost moths (Hepialidae) Moths (Lepidoptera) Insects Oncopera rufobrunnea

Additional information

12mm to 25mm Animal size

Species information

Oncopera rufobrunnea Scientific name
Brown Corby Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 760.31m Recorded at altitude
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