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Wingia lambertella
Wingia lambertella
-37.8937, 145.312
Field Notes
Description:
A beautifully smooth sculptured moth in pink with deeply etched yellow lines. Approximately 22mm long.
Habitat:
Attracted to lights at a used car yard which is surrounded by eucalyptus based national park forest.. This one was on black glass.
Notes:
A Eucalyptus specialist the larvae pull leaves together and build a silk tube in which they feed, grow and pupate. The caterpillars are brownish green, and covered in sparse white hairs. Found across most of southern Australia including Tasmania.
Family: OECOPHORIDAE
Subfamily: OECOPHORINAE
Supertribe: Wingia group
Tribe: Wingia Subgroup 9
Genus: Wingia
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