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Casbia celidosema (♂)

Casbia celidosema

Description:

From a distance I thought it had kanji characters printed on the wings. About 30mm wingspan.

Habitat:

Found under a night light (at midday) in a local nature reserve.

Notes:

I would call this 'Pawprints moth'
The markings on these wings seem to be unusual but Ken Harris has one (of three) similar - http://morwellnp.pangaean.net/cgi-bin/sh... .
family: GEOMETRIDAE
subfamily: Ennominae
tribe: Caberini
http://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:b...
Russell Best says "Tentative ID by Marilyn Hewish who added "Casbia spp are a trial. I'm going to ANIC in Canberra in April to sort them out for the second Ennominae MoV. This is almost certainly not C. farinalis which is plainer. It may be C. celidosema"

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4 Comments

RonnieGIvyJr
RonnieGIvyJr 9 years ago

Common interest.

Leuba Ridgway
Leuba Ridgway 9 years ago

lovely spotting btw..

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 9 years ago

Thanks BB.

Leuba Ridgway
Leuba Ridgway 9 years ago


Check out Casbia farinalis

http://morwellnp.pangaean.net/cgi-bin/sh...

Geometridae

Ennominae

Mark Ridgway
Spotted by
Mark Ridgway

Victoria, Australia

Spotted on Aug 15, 2014
Submitted on Aug 15, 2014

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