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Two Ribbed Arctid

Palaeosia bicosta

Description:

see references

Habitat:

several found on driveways lights in an apartment block by a swamp

Notes:

similar to the Lichen-eating Caterpillar Moth http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/416... or http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/173...

1 Species ID Suggestions

Lichen-eating Caterpillar
Manulea replana Manulea replana


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3 Comments

StephenSolomons
StephenSolomons 9 years ago

Oh, and this one http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/416... Thanks for checking Mark!

StephenSolomons
StephenSolomons 9 years ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palaeosia_b... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manulea_rep... The difference is the splash of orange on the back. P. bicosta doesn't have it. I wouldn't have noticed but they were both about at almost the same time and at the same place that year

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 9 years ago

Common name is a bit weird but that's what butterflyhouse has. :/

StephenSolomons
Spotted by
StephenSolomons

Gosford, New South Wales, Australia

Spotted on Dec 30, 2013
Submitted on Dec 30, 2013

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