Showing posts with label Moth: Dark Epicoma. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Moth: Dark Epicoma. Show all posts

Monday, 4 April 2016

ID solved, maybe

I took a photo of a moth in 2011 which I was unable to get enough features for identification but today I think I have found the right species, but there appears to be some question regarding whether there are two distinct species that look very similar or is there just the one.
Today's photo is of a female Epicoma contristis (or tristis)  a species in the NOCTUOIDEA genus found throughout southern Australia whose larvae feed on eucalyptus, leptospermum and kunzea species as well as others in the Myrtacea family.


The photo below is of the male photographed 22/11/2011