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Paralaea porphyrinaria
Paralaea porphyrinaria
-37.8959, 145.314
Field Notes
Description:
Shaped like an upturned sailing dinghy and coloured with attractive vanished timber tones with simple, clear, red-orange veins. A small tuft on the head would form the knuckle on the bow of a dinghy. Under wings revealed cream with black near outer margin. If this was a bit bigger I could turn it over, rig it and go for a sail.
Habitat:
Attracted to security lighting at night at the local school.
Notes:
An unusual resting posture for a geometrid, this moth develops from an attractive green caterpillar with flat red shields for a face. It eats eucalyptus. http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/19346033 <br>
family: GEOMETRIDAE <br>
subfamily: Ennominae <br>
tribe: Nacophorini <br>
http://spatial.ala.org.au/?q=lsid:%22urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.t…
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Spotted for Missions
Photographed
PublishedApril 23, 2014
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