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Beautiful
I think you've got the wrong species name; apparently the blue river damsel is blue the whole way along, and isn't in Victoria. I'd go with Ischnura heterosticta
Very pretty. Any photos of its back?
Actually maybe it's an agrotis? I think I'm getting closer... Moths are hard.
Oh there isn't much in my childhood collection, because although I spent a great part of my childhood looking at and collecting bugs, I almost always let them go. So the ones I have either died of natural causes, or were given to me, and there is one beetle I was told was a tree-killing pest so it was okay to freeze it.
I think it is in the Anthelinae family, but I'm still trying ...
That should be the right species. There are lots of similar species but I'm pretty confident that you have Melangyna damaster there, because that is the Victorian one, and the other species just didn't look quite right. There is no wiki page on Melangyna damaster, so I reckon you should put your photo on wiki commons and make the stub article!
I have that one in my childhood insect collection!
I FOUND IT! well the genus at least. It is some species of Snellenia!
These pictures are amazing! Anyone have any idea what sort of moth this is? Something weird is going on with its head; it seems to have two pairs of antennae! I suspect it might be a new moth, and its proboscis hasn't closed together yet? And that is what smaller curled pair of protuberances from its head are?
