Elhamma at Freshwater Creek, VIC
Identification history
| Elhamma australasiae | 14 Apr 2024 | donhe | ||
| Elhamma australasiae | 14 Apr 2024 | ibaird | ||
| Oxycanus (genus) | 14 Apr 2024 | donhe | ||
| Elhamma australasiae | 13 Apr 2024 | WendyEM |
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5 comments
donhe
wrote:
15 Apr 2024
The animal size is listed a 5+ cms, which is usually the length of the body for a moth with closed wings. So the wingspan is probably 10 cms, which is a bit big for E. australasiae.
WendyEM
wrote:
15 Apr 2024
That is my fault. I nominated that size. I have not been clear what dimension 'size' represents. In a beetle, earwig, Blattid etc body length I guessed, but in moths texts, wingspan is the usual dimension given. I was not sure which dimension I should give and it is a compulsory input field for a record. Plus I am poor at remembering/visualising the mm or cm dimensions of these animals. For some I went and counted flyscreen squares to the cm to calculate it and was beginning to think I needed to count the threads per cm for my mothing sheet. I do guess size of moths on the sheet by looking at how magnified the warp and weft of my sheet is in the shots or how big or small compared to known vegetation they are on. Sorry to have caused confusion.
donhe
wrote:
15 Apr 2024
Yes, NatureMapr is ambiguous. A comment would be good to resolve it specifying which it was . I would expect wingspan for a dragonfly or many geometrids but if the photo is of an insect with folded wings I would expect most observers to offer the length. Francis Walker of course always offered both.🙂
Location information
- Coordinates 144.269833-38.251817
- Maps WendyM's farm at Freshwater Ck.
- Places Freshwater Creek, VIC
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- 25 Feb 2024 11:22 PM Recorded on
- WendyEM Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Swift and Ghost moths (Hepialidae) Moths (Lepidoptera) WendyEM Barwon South West NatureMapr
Additional information
- 50mm or larger Animal size
- Female Gender
- Alive / healthy Animal health
Species information
- Elhamma australasiae Scientific name
- Elhamma Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1117.9m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
- External link More information
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Synonyms
Porina banghaasii Porina banghaasi
Record quality
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- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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