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I've been sorting the Australian #PlumeMoth specimens in the Australian National #Insect #Collection. #ANIC includes a few specimens collected in the wider region. One of them is this extraordinary plume moth collected by W.W. Brandt in July/August 1958 in Kiambaui / Kiambowe in north-eastern #PapuaNewGuinea. Sadly, it's not properly set, so it's hard to photograph well.
The location is here:
The basic colour pattern is not uncommon here in #Australia in #Gelechioidea and #Tineidae, but I've never seen any plume moth with markings at all similar.
It will be a new species in the tribe #Platyptiliini, probably somewhere close to #Xyroptila.
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Coleophora trifolii (Curtis, 1832)
Published under #CC0 here https://flic.kr/p/2rPsr4U
#Lepidoptera #Gelechioidea #Coleophoridae #Coleophorinae #Coleophora #Pentax #Macro #Moth #Animal #Wildlife #Nature #Mywork #Photography
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What am I missing here? I can't find anything close to this #moth from #GluepotReserve last week.
The gestalt indicates #Gelechioidea and the labial palpi are recurved but not savagely so (unlike most #Australian #Oecophoridae or #Depressariidae which were my first guesses). The black legs suggest #Xyloryctidae and it's reminiscent of some NZ Gymnobathra apart from the palpi.
There are also hints of #Erebidae, but surely not ...