Powdered Wiretail at Wodonga, VIC
Identification history
| Rhadinosticta simplex | 22 Jan 2025 | HarveyPerkins | ||
| Rhadinosticta simplex | 21 Jan 2025 | KorinneM | ||
| Unverified | 21 Dec 2024 | KylieWaldon |
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User's notes
Flew in low and after landing waggled tail up and down like a fishing rod. Presume its a female seeing its so neutral coloured?
3 comments
HarveyPerkins
wrote:
22 Jan 2025
Thoracic markings seem to fit Rhadinosticta simplex, as does pronounced secondary genitalia (definitely a male, @KylieWaldon), but not much else to go on due to dappling of light, insufficient clarity, and tail-tip being obscured by vegetation. Habitat looks to be within expectation.
HarveyPerkins
wrote:
22 Jan 2025
Based on the thoracic markings, and the distribution of wiretails, it can't really be anything else.
Location information
- Coordinates 146.886908-36.115660
- Places Wodonga, VIC
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 21 Dec 2024 07:25 AM Recorded on
- KylieWaldon Recorded by
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Collections
KylieWaldon NatureMapr Albury, Wodonga Damselflies (Zygoptera) Dragonflies & Damselflies (Odonata) Insects Rhadinosticta simplex
Additional information
- junctus reeds Associated plant
- 25mm to 50mm Animal size
- Female Gender
- Alive / healthy Animal health
- Resting Insect behaviour on flower
- True Insect on a flower
Species information
- Rhadinosticta simplex Scientific name
- Powdered Wiretail Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Rare or uncommon native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 573.63m Recorded at altitude
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- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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