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MatthewFrawley wrote:

21 Jan 2025

A male.

Dispar compacta

owenh wrote:

9 Jan 2025

Image 1 - male; image 2 - female

Timoconia flammeata

RAllen wrote:

6 Jan 2025

Confession first. I kept walking past and Suzi called me back to see!! She showed me the tubular shelters and how the subsequent growth of leaves resulted in the conspicuous loop. 1st photo shows some adjacent chewing while 2nd shows a couple of doubled back leaves forming loop.

There is doubt of course as my photos not especially clear and we did not peel open shelter to reveal larvae or pupae. Nice to have an alternative breeding site though.

Hesperilla donnysa

owenh wrote:

6 Jan 2025

I'm not able to verify this as H. donnysa Richard. Not being familiar with the larval shelters of this species I can only quote Michael Braby (ref to Fisher 1978) 'The newly hatched larva makes a shelter by rolling the edge of a young central leaf. In late instars, a larger tubular shelter is constructed by joining several leaves with silk. One of the leaves used for the shelter often forms a conspicuous loop as it grows. The top of the shelter has an opening through which the larva exits at night to feed...' (Butterflies of Australia 2000). Perhaps you can try and contact Suzi for her thoughts.

Hesperilla donnysa

RAllen wrote:

1 Jan 2025

Great sighting.
Curiously a recently uploaded record on ala from Two Sticks Brindabella. Specimen undated, from WA museum.
https://biocache.ala.org.au/occurrences/20dea857-4c22-4991-b960-e01d825b1848

Toxidia andersoni