caterpillar or pupa or cocoon at Acton, ACT
Identification history
| Lepidoptera unclassified IMMATURE | 15 Dec 2019 | GlennCocking | ||
| Unidentified | 28 Dec 2018 | TimL |
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User's notes
The caterpillar had its head end in a hole in the tree bark and was waiving its spotted rear end in the air, presumably as a threat display.
1 comment
donhe
wrote:
29 Dec 2018
The orange tail spots and black thoracic barsare good characters but I have not met a caterpillar with those features. The black bars are reminiscent of Lasicampidae, but all the caterpillars that I know in that family have a hairy skirt along the legs. The pattern is quite like those of some caterpillars in Amphipyrinae which are less hairy, but I do not many caterpillars in that subfamily.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.108288-35.275367
- Maps ANBG
- Places Acton, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 18 Dec 2018 01:42 PM Recorded on
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Insects Moths (Lepidoptera) Other moths TimL Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- Eucalyptus salinga, Sydney blue gum. fam. myrtaceae. Associated plant
- 25mm to 50mm 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
- Machine learning
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