Reddish Wave, Plantain Moth at South Pacific Heathland Reserve
Identification history
| Unidentified | 12 Jun 2018 | CharlesDove |
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The Alucitidae or many-plumed moths are a family of moths with unusually modified wings. Both fore- and hind-wings consist of about six rigid spines, from which radiate flexible bristles creating a structure similar to a bird's feather.
4 comments
PaulWhitington
wrote:
16 Jun 2018
Hi Charles, this looks like a female Scopula rubraria to me. ALA shows lots of images ( https://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:bc88c0c3-b6b2-454b-bbae-6fc9fb084f37#gallery) as does Don Herbison-Evans site (http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/ster/rubraria.html). As you can see from these images, it is quite variable in its markings (like many, many moths!). But your photo shows the features typical of this widespread species - brown wings with zigzag markings, and a dark spot near the centre of each wing as well of the common variation of a double row of dots along the outer edge of the wings.
CharlesDove
wrote:
16 Jun 2018
OK seems right might need someone to add it to the species list, I cannot confirm or add species to moths .
PS I do send butterfly's and Moths to Don sometimes to confirm ID
PS I do send butterfly's and Moths to Don sometimes to confirm ID
PaulWhitington
wrote:
17 Jun 2018
Scopula rubraria is already in the list Charles, so I can confirm this for you.
Location information
- Coordinates 150.473347-35.369282
- Maps South Pacific Heathland Reserve
Sighting information
- 1 - 3 Abundance
- 8 Nov 2016 12:00 AM Recorded on
- CharlesDove Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Geometer moths (Geometridae) Moths (Lepidoptera) CharlesDove
Species information
- Scopula rubraria Scientific name
- Reddish Wave, Plantain Moth Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1614.9m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
- External link More information
