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Wingia lambertella
A beautifully smooth sculptured moth in pink with deeply etched yellow lines. Approximately 22mm long.
Attracted to lights at a used car yard which is surrounded by eucalyptus based national park forest.. This one was on black glass.
A Eucalyptus specialist the larvae pull leaves together and build a silk tube in which they feed, grow and pupate. The caterpillars are brownish green, and covered in sparse white hairs. Found across most of southern Australia including Tasmania. Family: OECOPHORIDAE Subfamily: OECOPHORINAE Supertribe: Wingia group Tribe: Wingia Subgroup 9 Genus: Wingia ............... http://morwellnp.pangaean.net/cgi-bin/sh...
6 Comments
Great find Mark. It's beautiful :)
Thanks Daniele... yes a delicious looking moth :-)
Nice one Mark! Apricot and mango ice-cream...
Funny about synchronicity, it adds a little to the debate about the sacred I think. Yes my design. Part of a cartoon for a little magazine a few years back
Yeah thanks Stephen. I saw this on the ButterflyHouse website a few days ago and told Leuba I would really like to see this moth... just occasionally synchronicity is real. I like your new image too. Your work?
wow. pretty little moth! Nice.