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Noctuoid moths (except Arctiinae)
Sighting 4680216

Arctornis (genus)

A Tussock moth (Lymantriini at Abergowrie, QLD

Arctornis (genus) at Abergowrie, QLD - 20 Oct 2008 08:21 PM
Arctornis (genus) at Abergowrie, QLD - 20 Oct 2008 08:21 PM
Arctornis (genus) at Abergowrie, QLD - 20 Oct 2008 08:21 PM
Arctornis (genus) at Abergowrie, QLD - 20 Oct 2008 08:21 PM
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Arctornis (genus) 27 Jun 2025 WendyEM
Arctornis (genus) 27 Jun 2025 donhe
Unverified 27 Jun 2025 PJH123

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Arctornis sp

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donhe wrote:
   27 Jun 2025
@PJH123 : how you tell A lucens from A queenslandica ?
PJH123 wrote:
   27 Jun 2025
@donhe you would need to see them front on then queenslandica has, “head lightly scaled, white, with a pair of purplish brown dots between the eyes just below the antennal bases: pair of thin purplish brown bars between antennal bases which extend almost to the mid-line; labial palps upturned, white, with purplish brown tips.”
WendyEM wrote:
   27 Jun 2025
why are you ignoring Arctornis ravenshoeae ? No species appear to be recognised by ALA/AFD
donhe wrote:
   27 Jun 2025
@WendyEM : Thought A. ravenshoeae was from far north ? Ok. How do we distinguish that from the other two ?
PJH123 wrote:
   28 Jun 2025
@WendyEM See Peter MavKey's Review of the Australian species of Arctornis Germar, 1810 (Lepidoptera:Erebidae:Lymantriinae),
Australian Entomologist, Volume 43, Part 4 (2016), pp. 174-177.

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/312798#page/3/mode/1up

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