Wattle Wood Moth: Female, profile

Wattle Wood Moth (Endoxyla cf encalypti)

Class:

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

Order:

Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera)

Family:

Wood Moth (:Cossoidea Cossidae)

Species:

Wattle Wood Moth (Endoxyla cf encalypti)

This Photo:

Female, profile

Other name:

Wattle Goat Moth

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
Head & body ~73mm, wingspan ~140mm or wider (hard to say as she lost her wing tips)
A number of Endoxyla females are flightless with reduced wings (brachypterous). But with this species the female has fully developed wings; which she has since battered severely.

This species is

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

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