Australian Diamondback Moth S2, Pale | Australian Diamondback Moth S3, Profile | |||||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||
Order: | Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera) | ||||
Family: | Diamondback Moth (:Yponomeutoid Plutellidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
Species: | Australian Diamondback Moth (Plutella cf australiana) | ||||
This Photo: | S3, Darker | ||||
Synonym: | Plutella xylostella-australiana | ||||
Thank you Alan Melville for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere Only discovered as being a separate moth this year (2018). It is not possible to differentiate them visibly from the introduced Cabbage Moth. However, the introduced moth is a cosmopolitan species, and seems to prefer cooler/wetter environments. As such, we are guessing this is the native one at Ellura, but the introduced one in the Adelaide Hills. Thanks to Donald Hobern for alerting us to this new species Unusually on iNat they are now calling this "Complex Plutella xylostella-australiana", it's not a proper taxon name or identifier and should really be left as Plutella genus, but it does a good job of quickly highlighting the situation. | |||||
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