Pyralid or Snout Moths (Pyralidae & Crambidae)


Pyralid or Snout Moths (Pyralidae & Crambidae)

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Span102 wrote:
Yesterday
What an interesting moth!

Cnaphalocrocis poeyalis
ibaird wrote:
30 Apr 2025
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/471441-Hednota-pedionoma/browse_photos

Hednota pedionoma
ibaird wrote:
26 Apr 2025
Definite greenish colour and stronger markings.
A new species sighting for NatureMapr. Excellent photos. The Distribution of sightings shows a strongly coastal distribution from Northern coastal New South Wales to North Queensland.

Heteromicta poeodes
WendyEM wrote:
26 Apr 2025
there are a number of sp on BOLD (Hobern) close to this moth but none that fully fit

Hednota (genus)
WendyEM wrote:
26 Apr 2025
from (thanks to https://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/pyra/poeodes.html)
A. Jefferis Turner, A preliminary revision of the Australian Thyrididae and Pyralidae. II,
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, Volume 19 (1905), p. 54.
poeodes = grass green description of a male "Head and palpi greenish-grey. Antennae whitish. Thorax green. Abdomen whitish. Legs whitish irrotated and annulated with fuscous. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa gently arched, apex rounded, termen rounded, oblique; bright green with a very few fuscous scales; an irregularly shaped dark-fuscous discal spot at 1/2; a series of dark-fuscous dots on apical third of costa continued round apex sinuate; whitish-grey; cilia whitish. Hindwings with termen sinuate; whitish-grey; cilia-whitish."

Heteromicta poeodes
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