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Caladenia carnea
About 30cm tall on a fine wiry stem. Pinkish white flower about 20mm across.
Moth about 10mm long.
In a dry sclerophyll forest dominated by silver leafed stringybark eucalyptus. Baluk William Flora Reserve.
Common names for this flower include all combinations of 'fingers' 'lady' 'striped' and 'pink' (lol)
Caladenia carnea is very likely to be a complex of related species.
Atlas of Living Australia has flags on this for 'Extinct' in Victoria !?
http://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:b...
Moth is
Leistomorpha brontoscopa Meyrick, 1884
(one synonym: Leistomorpha macrozancla Turner, 1941)
OECOPHORINAE , OECOPHORIDAE , GELECHIOIDEA
Spotted on Oct 15, 2014
Submitted on Oct 15, 2014
5 Comments
No reason you can't make it a moth spotting as well. I have a photo with 3 different coral reef fish species in it, and I submitted it three times as three different species spottings. Btw, I've got the tiniest little pink fingers orchid I've ever seen down the back. Need to get out and photograph it.
Thanks again lori. Your C.carnea looks perfect to me. And Leuba the moth looks spot-on too. Dilemma. Seeing as it's within a flowers trip I will make this spotting one also.
Tanks gals. Fixing it tomorrow.
The orchid is a Caladenia species.I'm temped to say it is a C. carnea. Compare with this one of mine: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/470...
Check out
Leistomorpha brontoscopa
http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au...