A Pearl Moth at Rosedale, NSW
Identification history
| Piletocera macroperalis (Spilomelinae, Crambidae) | 25 Apr 2025 | WendyEM | ||
| Piletocera macroperalis (Spilomelinae, Crambidae) | 25 Apr 2025 | WendyEM | ||
| Piletocera macroperalis | 11 Apr 2025 | ibaird | ||
| Metasia dicealis | 23 Nov 2019 | jb2602 | ||
| Metasia (genus) | 23 Nov 2019 | jb2602 |
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User's notes
Looks a lot like Metasia liophaea
6 comments
ibaird
wrote:
24 Nov 2019
Not M dicealis I think not least because it lacks the fine dots along the outer edge of the forewing margin that species has. I think the shape of the costa is wrong for Metasia too. I'm looking elsewhere.
WendyEM
wrote:
11 Apr 2025
markings are good match for Nacoleia oncophragma but it lacks the antennae of that genus. Wings maybe too rounded
https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimens.php?taxid=328679
https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations?verifiable=true&taxon_id=635638&place_id=6744&preferred_place_id=6744
https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimens.php?taxid=328679
https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations?verifiable=true&taxon_id=635638&place_id=6744&preferred_place_id=6744
WendyEM
wrote:
11 Apr 2025
shame about the BOLD specimens ! There is some funniness about the antennae on quite a few of them on iNat e.g.
https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/260184902
https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations?taxon_id=1030108
https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/260184902
https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations?taxon_id=1030108
Location information
- Coordinates 150.222318-35.812193
- Places Rosedale, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 15 Nov 2019 08:33 PM Recorded on
- jb2602 Recorded by
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Collections
jb2602 NatureMapr South Coast Pyralid or Snout Moths (Pyralidae & Crambidae) Moths (Lepidoptera) Insects Piletocera macroperalis (Spilomelinae, Crambidae)
Additional information
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
Species information
- Piletocera macroperalis (Spilomelinae, Crambidae) Scientific name
- A Pearl Moth Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
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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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