Athetis tenuis
Plain Tenuis Moth at Yackandandah, VIC
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| Athetis tenuis | donhe | 14 Jun 2025 | |
| Athetis tenuis | ibaird | 13 Jun 2025 | |
| Noctuoidea (superfamily) | WendyEM | 12 Jun 2025 | |
| Philobota (genus) | donhe | 20 Dec 2024 | |
| Lepidoptera unclassified ADULT moth | donhe | 6 Dec 2024 | |
| Unverified | KylieWaldon | 6 Dec 2024 |
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User's notes
Extremely hard to see. Creamy brown colour.
6 comments
7 Dec 2024
thats ok donhe. It was still beautiful. we've had some extreme weather here - pouring rain one day, humid hot the next.
21 Dec 2024
I had to look that up! Its so hard to see in the over the top photo but it appears so. It was down so low - only 1M off the ground.
12 Jun 2025
Adult Gelechioidea have a "basally scaled haustellum" , see
CladisticsVolume 20, Issue 4 pp. 303-340
Phylogeny of the superfamily Gelechioidea (Lepidoptera: Ditrysia): an exemplar approach
Lauri Kaila
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1096-0031.2004.00027.x?msockid=1b0c3ee21fec6d8d0c4a2a321e176c07
CladisticsVolume 20, Issue 4 pp. 303-340
Phylogeny of the superfamily Gelechioidea (Lepidoptera: Ditrysia): an exemplar approach
Lauri Kaila
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1096-0031.2004.00027.x?msockid=1b0c3ee21fec6d8d0c4a2a321e176c07
Location information
- Coordinates 146.831818-36.320098
- Places Yackandandah, VIC
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 2 Dec 2024 08:33 AM Recorded on
- KylieWaldon Recorded by
- kunzea ericoides Associated plant
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
- Alive / healthy Animal health
- Feeding on nectar or pollen Insect behaviour on flower
- Yes Insect on a flower
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Species information
- Athetis tenuis Scientific name
- Plain Tenuis Moth Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 995.5m Recorded at altitude
- External link More information
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