Sawfly, Spitfire at Cotter River, ACT
Identification history
| Pseudoperga sp. (genus) | 10 Oct 2020 | KimPullen | ||
| Paropsis (paropsine) genus-group | 8 Jul 2020 | samreid007 | ||
| Pseudoperga sp. (genus) | 20 Jul 2018 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Anisynta monticolae | 11 Mar 2018 | SWishart |
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User's notes
The caterpillar was sharing a small tree with another, different species of caterpillar
3 comments
SuziBond
wrote:
13 Mar 2018
This isn't a butterfly or moth caterpillar, it is the the larva of something else (sawfly?). A good thing to check when you're trying to identify a butterfly caterpillar is to check the plant it is on/eating - most species have preferred plants they eat, and this can be very helpful in nailing species identification.
KimPullen
wrote:
8 Aug 2018
This larva doesn't look quite like a sawfly, I think it is a leaf beetle, maybe Paropsis or a related genus.
Location information
- Coordinates 148.801942-35.542948
- Altitude 1544.8m
- Maps Namadgi National Park
- Places Cotter River, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 - 3 Abundance
- 7 Feb 2018 02:40 PM Recorded on
- SWishart Recorded by
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Insects Sawflies (Hymenoptera, Symphyta)
Additional information
- 25mm to 50mm Animal size
- Larvae Breeding behaviour
Species information
- Pseudoperga sp. (genus) Scientific name
- Sawfly, Spitfire Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1938m Recorded at altitude
- 91 images trained Machine learning
- External link More information
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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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