Red-lined Looper Moth at Melba, ACT
Identification history
| Crypsiphona ocultaria | 25 Jan 2021 | ibaird | ||
| Unidentified | 25 Jan 2021 | kasiaaus |
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It looks very much like Crypsiphona ocultaria and yet the darker and more brown forewngs seem to be very unusual. I will never forgive myself for not getting an underside photo.
3 comments
kasiaaus
wrote:
26 Jan 2021
Are you sure it is Crypsiphona ocultaria? The forewing colour is so different to the usual.
ibaird
wrote:
26 Jan 2021
I think it may be a kind of 'tranlucent' effect which I have noticed in some specimens. I suggest it doesn't look like any of the unnamed Crypsiphona spp. from ANIC shown on Bold Systems 4. C. amaura and C. melanosema look different and seem to be confined to WA. The ALA has C. tasmanica which is Tasmanian, but doesn't look to have tha darker areas as shown here. Without an underside shot I doubt we could separate C. ocultaria and C. tasmanica.
kasiaaus
wrote:
26 Jan 2021
Thanks Ian. I should have at least tried to take an underside shot but I was not thinking straight. If I ever see it again I definitely will try to do that.
Its pattern seems identical to Crypsiphona ocultaria but the colouring was very different. There were "normal" Crypsiphona ocultaria sitting not too far from it and they just looked so very different and all of them very grey while this one was definitely brown. I could not see any hint of translucency and the moth seemed quite fresh.
Its pattern seems identical to Crypsiphona ocultaria but the colouring was very different. There were "normal" Crypsiphona ocultaria sitting not too far from it and they just looked so very different and all of them very grey while this one was definitely brown. I could not see any hint of translucency and the moth seemed quite fresh.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.050193-35.208747
- Altitude 562.1m
- Places Melba, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 - 3 Abundance
- 19 Jan 2021 12:44 AM Recorded on
- kasiaaus Recorded by
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Insects Moths (Lepidoptera) Geometer moths (Geometridae)
Additional information
- 50mm or larger Animal size
Species information
- Crypsiphona ocultaria Scientific name
- Red-lined Looper Moth Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 882.3m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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