Lomera (genus)

2 Vincentia, NSW

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Identification history

	Lomera (genus)	15 Jan 2024	ibaird
	Lomera (genus)	31 Dec 2023	RobG1

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Continued from sighting: https://southcoast-nsw.naturemapr.org/sightings/4539887. Around five of the babies caterpillars had survived by this point. Continued on sighting: https://southcoast-nsw.naturemapr.org/sightings/4539909

8 comments

donhe wrote:

8 Jan 2024

What are they eating?

RobG1 wrote:

8 Jan 2024

I fed them sprigs of small leaved natives from the garden, such as Melaleuca, Callistemon, Crowea.

donhe wrote:

10 Jan 2024

Interesting. You mentioned that you found one on grass?

donhe wrote:

10 Jan 2024

What is the approx length of the mature case? What is approx wingspan of the adult moth? Can you cut (say with nail scissors, very carefully) a case open to photograph a whole caterpillar?

RobG1 wrote:

10 Jan 2024

I am at Tumbarumba at the moment and the case moths are at Vincentia, I will attempt cutting a case open on Saturday, when I go back to the coast.

RobG1 wrote:

14 Jan 2024

I have cut open a couple of the cases. The first case was tiny and the pupae inside is shriveled and dead, but looks to be male. The second case was the one that the male moth from sighting Lomera (genus) was perched on and it appears to be female (see sighting Lomera (genus)).
The length of the male moth's forewing was 12 mm to the tip, so the wing span would be double this.

RobG1 wrote:

14 Jan 2024

@donhe : I found the parent case moth, sighting https://southcoast-nsw.naturemapr.org/sightings/4539886, attached to some kind of mat rush. I could try getting the mat rush identified.

donhe wrote:

15 Jan 2024

Yes, thanks. It would be good to have the food plant species.

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