Unverified
Can you identify this sighting?
Identify this sighting
| Lepidoptera unclassified IMMATURE | Hejor1 | 8 Jun 2025 |
Please Login or Register to identify this sighting.
User's notes
no idea if this is a moth. on Melalueca, leaf pinched in the middle and held together with silk. all of the had which might be an empty/emerged pupa case at one end. most had a dot at each end of the silk coccoon.
3 comments
8 Jun 2025
Having photographed it, could you gently open it and see if it is a spider or a caterpillar inside, photograph the inhabitant, and if it is a caterpillar: take it home and rear it to get an adult moth so that we can determine the species ?
9 Jun 2025
@donhe I opened one and it was empty, so I think they had already emerged and maybe the pupa case is the the white part stuck on the end.
9 Jun 2025
As it was empty, I guess the occupant decided to go elsewhere. So it could have been a spider or a caterpillar. We will never know.
Sighting information
- 4 - 15 Abundance
- Hejor1 Recorded by
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
Collections
Record quality
Quality score
5 / 7
- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- GPS evidence of location
- Description
- Additional attributes
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species