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Wingia lambertella

Wingia lambertella

Photo by Mark Ridgway
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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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http://morwellnp.pangaean.net/cgi-bin/show_species.cgi?find_this=Wingia…

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Comments (6)

Thanks Daniele... yes a delicious looking moth :-)
Funny about synchronicity, it adds a little to the debate about the sacred I think. Yes my design. Part of a cartoon for a little magazine a few years back
Yeah thanks Stephen. I saw this on the ButterflyHouse website a few days ago and told Leuba I would really like to see this moth... just occasionally synchronicity is real. I like your new image too. Your work?
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PublishedOctober 5, 2013

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