#tineidae — Public Fediverse posts
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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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Four more moths from #Canberra last night.
The first one, a #Leptozestis sp. (#Elachistidae) has incredible shining tufts of scales on its forewings - and a #fly hitchhiking on its head.
The gleaming white #moth is #Chasmina pulchra (#Noctuidae).
The small moth with a barred fringe and a brown saddle is #Moerarchis inconcisella (#Tineidae).
The moth with spread wings is the very common #Nacoleia rhoeoalis (#Crambidae).
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I finally got an answer to a question I've had for quite some time: what the heck are these worm-like creatures with a weird shell that I see everywhere around the house?
I got a photo of one of them, uploaded it to #iNaturalist, and got the genus #Phereoeca, a type of moth, as the suggested taxon. Reading the description of the larvae of this genus, I'm convinced that this is the right answer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phereoeca
#bugstodon #mothstodon #moths #insects #Tineidae #Lepidoptera #entomology