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Autumn Gum Moth
Mnesampela privata
-37.8998, 145.313
Field Notes
Description:
About 22mm long; a rear-up, tented posture (pic 2), mottled orange and pink on upper surface of wings; antennae orange, narrow, simple, held below wings.
Habitat:
This one was found just after dusk attracted by bright light.
Notes:
Apparently regarded by humans as a pest to eucalyptus species (I'm sure the gums learned to live with it over the past few hundred million years) . Found throughout most of southern Australia.
Early instars of the Caterpillar are light green with dark markings and brown heads and later they become dark grey-green. All stages have a pair of yellow knobs on the second abdominal segment...
Thanks martinl for ID.
Other records http://bie.ala.org.au/species/Mnesampela+privata
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PublishedMay 25, 2013
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