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ibaird wrote:

Yesterday

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:

Yesterday

there are a number of sp on BOLD (Hobern) close to this moth but none that fully fit

Hednota (genus)

WendyEM wrote:

Yesterday

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

WendyEM wrote:

Yesterday

Heteromicta poeodes -
green colours fade to straw in older museum specimens
https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimen.php?processid=ANICQ301-11
https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimens.php?taxid=254838
https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/8ea09b36-8cea-41b4-a277-0bb798ce3acf#names
https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations?verifiable=true&taxon_id=781656&place_id=6744&preferred_place_id=6744
I note the above image is on iNat but not yet verified, this is probably just a volunteer resources issue (as with all of these citizen science sites)

Heteromicta poeodes

ibaird wrote:

25 Apr 2025

The moth is very worn, I'm not sure I could be sure of the species given this much wear and tear,

Nacoleia rhoeoalis

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Pyralid or Snout Moths (Pyralidae & Crambidae)