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Cosmodes elegans
Cosmodes elegans
-37.8936, 145.313
Field Notes
Description:
About 14mm long and with it's wings held tented it very much resembled a Plusinae (looper moth). The green is a bit flattened by the flash. This one slowly flattened it's wings to give a good, but abnormal, dorsal view in pic 3
Habitat:
Resting on a car at a local used car yard under strong night lights.
Notes:
An interesting by-story - I had just seen someone else's unidentified record of these posted and thought I must ID it and hope to find one one day. The ID was easy and quick and 30 minutes later while walking the dog there it was on a car - the only wildlife within 100 metres. Definitely Carma.
One common name is 'Green Blotched Moth' (how imaginative)
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Cosmodes
http://bie.ala.org.au/species/Cosmodes+elegans
http://www.brisbaneinsects.com/brisbane_noctuidae/GreenBlotchedMoth.htm
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