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Wingia lambertella

Wingia lambertella

Description:

A beautifully smooth sculptured moth in pink with deeply etched yellow lines. Approximately 22mm long.

Habitat:

Attracted to lights at a used car yard which is surrounded by eucalyptus based national park forest.. This one was on black glass.

Notes:

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...

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6 Comments

LeanneGardner
LeanneGardner 10 years ago

Great find Mark. It's beautiful :)

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 10 years ago

Thanks Daniele... yes a delicious looking moth :-)

DanielePralong
DanielePralong 10 years ago

Nice one Mark! Apricot and mango ice-cream...

StephenSolomons
StephenSolomons 10 years ago

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

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 10 years ago

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?

StephenSolomons
StephenSolomons 10 years ago

wow. pretty little moth! Nice.

Mark Ridgway
Spotted by
Mark Ridgway

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Spotted on Oct 4, 2013
Submitted on Oct 5, 2013

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