Wattle Cup Moth: S1, Larva, ventral

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)

Order:

Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera)

Family:

Cup Moth (:Zygaenoidea Limacodidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Wattle Cup Moth (Calcarifera ordinata)

This Photo:

🔍S1, Larva, ventral🔎

Other name:

Blue Warts Caterpillar

Thank you Don Herbison-Evans, Axel Kallies, Dr Bevan Buirchell, Karen Weaving, James Peake (JimBobo) & Marc Epstein (MarcEpstein) for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
Adult males ~13mm.The larva was ~20mm long.
These seem to be a fairly rare moth, but we seem to have a good population of them.

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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