Gumleaf Skeletonizer at WREN Reserves
Identification history
| Uraba lugens | 5 May 2024 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Unverified | 1 Oct 2023 | KylieWaldon |
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User's notes
a unicorn caterpillar? it was kind of slithering towards me down the gum leaf like a snake! I thought it was a sawfly larvae as it has a point at one end. Weird.
2 comments
MichaelMulvaney
wrote:
5 May 2024
The caterpillar wears a hat made up of teh skins of previous moults
Location information
- Coordinates 146.874059-36.168403
- Maps WREN Reserves Wodonga
- Places Wodonga, VIC
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 1 Oct 2023 09:08 AM Recorded on
- KylieWaldon Recorded by
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Collections
KylieWaldon Albury, Wodonga NatureMapr Uraba lugens Noctuoid moths (except Arctiinae) Moths (Lepidoptera) Insects
Additional information
- gum tree Associated plant
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
- Unknown Gender
- Alive / healthy Animal health
Species information
- Uraba lugens Scientific name
- Gumleaf Skeletonizer Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1469.8m Recorded at altitude
- External link More information
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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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