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Epidesmia chilonaria
Thanks to everyone for the identification and updates (see comments) I have changed the identification to E. chilonaria as suggested. I have enough images of other species to be sure now. Many thanks for all the help.
Thanks Karen. You guys do great work and it is nice to be able to contribute to it
Congrats Stephen, your moth is featured in the Project Noah blog! http://blog.projectnoah.org/post/5623943...
Thank you both for the input. I have changed the id to Epidesmia sp. With your comments below the entry should cover all the bases :-)
There is a portion of the hindwing in E. chilonaria, just about the same seen in the spotting, that is brown like the other species, and that makes me think it would be hard to identify to species
The hindwings all are different, but the forewings are nearly identical.
I personally would leave this as Epidesmia sp., as I think it is not E. chilonaria, and E. perfabricata appears to be too grayish. It is also difficult looking at small photos of pinned specimens, as such photos do not always bring out the detail which can be crucial in identifying species.
http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au...
http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au...
E. chilonaria has orange on the HW (hindwing), this species does not, perfabricata is a better match.
Spotted on Dec 1, 2010
Submitted on Dec 3, 2012
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