subfamily at Jerrabomberra, NSW
Identification history
| Epipaschiinae immature unidentifiedspecies | 2 Feb 2025 | donhe | ||
| Epipaschiinae immature unidentifiedspecies | 2 Feb 2025 | WendyEM | ||
| Spectrotrota fimbrialis | 1 Feb 2025 | WendyEM | ||
| Unidentified | 31 Jan 2025 | DianneClarke |
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5 comments
DianneClarke
wrote:
1 Feb 2025
Thanks Wendy - that looks like it and there are a lot of the moths around at the moment.
donhe
wrote:
1 Feb 2025
I think that probably the caterpillars of a lot of Epipaschiinae look like this. So few have been reared. Hope you can rear it to confirm it.
WendyEM
wrote:
2 Feb 2025
OK, I have now found this in Caterpillars, Moths and their plants of southeastern Australia by Peter McQuillan, Jan Forrest, David Keane & Roger Grund. 2019 Publ. Butterfly Conservation South Australia p. 79 They raised Salma pyrastis from a caterpillar looking the same as this. Food plants were recorded as 2 Eucalyptus sp
Location information
- Places Jerrabomberra, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- DianneClarke Recorded by
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Collections
DianneClarke NatureMapr Canberra & Southern Tablelands Pyralid or Snout Moths (Pyralidae & Crambidae) Moths (Lepidoptera) Insects
Additional information
- Eucalypt. Leaf partially curled with some webbing over the larvae Associated plant
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
- Alive / healthy Animal health
Species information
- Epipaschiinae immature unidentifiedspecies Scientific name
- subfamily Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 463.6m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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