Sighting 4546532
Limnaecia chionospila
Cosmopterigid at Sheldon, QLD
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| Limnaecia chionospila | ibaird | 21 Jan 2024 | |
| Limnaecia chionospila | donhe | 21 Jan 2024 | |
| Unverified | PJH123 | 20 Jan 2024 |
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Limnaecia sp
3 comments
21 Jan 2024
This is one of those where I am not sure the Description matches the images
"Head ochreous whitish, back of crown blackish fuscous....Abdomen fuscous, towards base light yellow-ochreous......Forewings blackish-fuscous; a dark ashy-grey streak along dorsum; rather narrow ochreous-white slightly oblique fasciae at 1/4 and 1/2, pointed beneath, anterior edge convex, not crossing dorsal streak; an ochreous-white inwardly oblique spot on costa at 3/4, and a whitish terminal dot opposite; an ochreous white apical spot or dot: cilia fuscous, round apex mixed with dark fuscous, with a rather broad white apical bar."
"Head ochreous whitish, back of crown blackish fuscous....Abdomen fuscous, towards base light yellow-ochreous......Forewings blackish-fuscous; a dark ashy-grey streak along dorsum; rather narrow ochreous-white slightly oblique fasciae at 1/4 and 1/2, pointed beneath, anterior edge convex, not crossing dorsal streak; an ochreous-white inwardly oblique spot on costa at 3/4, and a whitish terminal dot opposite; an ochreous white apical spot or dot: cilia fuscous, round apex mixed with dark fuscous, with a rather broad white apical bar."
23 Jan 2024
Looks good to me except I do not see "a dark ashy-grey streak along dorsum". Maybe Meyrick's specimen was damaged slightly.
23 Jan 2024
It probably is it, not sure how this fits "oblique spot on costa at 3/4, and a whitish terminal dot opposite; an ochreous white apical spot or dot: "
Location information
- Places Sheldon, QLD
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- PJH123 Recorded by
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
Collections
- Sheldon Insects Curved-horn moths (all Gelechioidea except Oecophoridae) Moths (Lepidoptera) PJH123 NatureMapr Limnaecia chionospila
Species information
- Limnaecia chionospila Scientific name
- Cosmopterigid Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 747.3m Recorded at altitude
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Record quality
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5 / 7
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