Three Queensland Moths (1 Viewer)

delia todd

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• Dec 26, 2019

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I'd be grateful if someone could put a name to these three please. All in the Outback.

 

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Andy Adcock

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• Dec 26, 2019

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First looks like a Footman or relative of, Delia.

I'd say the last is one of these

http://www.terrain.net.nz/friends-of-te-henui-group/moths/owl-moth-dasypodia-cymatoides.html

https://www.ozanimals.com/Insect/Southern-Old-Lady-Moth/Dasypodia/selenophora.html

 

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delia todd

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Thanks Andy. The first one, I can see where you're coming from with Footman, but when I checked them in Queensland, they all seem to be brown LOL??

Gawd... I'm struggling to work out what the differences are between both the ones you linked to... and they both look like my one!!!

 

delia todd

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• Dec 27, 2019

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Here's another moth... a really tiny one, that I found in the Mount Nimmo area of the Gold Coast.

It had purplish wings, which don't show too clearly I'm afraid.

 

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honeym

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• Dec 27, 2019

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I think that with those antennae your last one must be a butterfly (probably a Lycaenid) - perhaps with badly formed wings.

 

honeym

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• Dec 27, 2019

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delia todd said:

Gawd... I'm struggling to work out what the differences are between both the ones you linked to... and they both look like my one!!!

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I think it must be a case of misidentified photos on the web.

There are certainly two different species figured - but sometimes with the same name. It seems to match one photo of Dasypodia cymatodes Guenée, 1852 on here (http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/cato/cymatodes.html). To know
if this was correct, you would need to examone the type specimens, which are in the Natural History Museum, London.

Martin

 

delia todd

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Oh of course.... ball on antennae = butterfly. Wondering if that applies to my first picture too (can't see too clearly).

Thanks Martin