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Unidentified at suppressed - 24 Sep 2024
Unidentified at suppressed - 24 Sep 2024
Unidentified at suppressed - 24 Sep 2024
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Identification history

Noctuoidea (superfamily) 30 Sep 2024 donhe
Lymantriinae (subfamily) 28 Sep 2024 ibaird
Unidentified 28 Sep 2024 PJH123

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Lymantriinae

6 comments

ibaird wrote:
   28 Sep 2024
Could not find a good match easlily.
donhe wrote:
   28 Sep 2024
Acyphas or Trichiocercus ?
ibaird wrote:
   30 Sep 2024
I don;t know. Looks like a gravid female.
PJH123 wrote:
   30 Sep 2024
2nd &3rd images show male antennae
ibaird wrote:
   30 Sep 2024
Ok, maybe in the firest image the antennae are just out of focus.
PJH123 wrote:
   3 Oct 2024
@ibaird Dear Ian, my humblest apologies; in consultation with Peter Mackey, who also could not place this to a genus, the sex was confirmed as a female. Peter noted “The pectinations of the antennae would be much longer in a male” and “in the anal shot of the tuft, right in the middle you can see a bare patch which when enlarged looks like the tip of the papillae anales which are at the tip of the female abdomen and are not usually protruded (perhaps she was emitting pheromones); if this were a male and could see the tip of the abdomen you would see the claspers which are part of the genitalia”.

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  • 25mm to 50mm Animal size
  • Male Gender

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