Banded Heath Moth
S2, dorsal
Laced Grey Heath Moth
Female, dorsal
| Banded Heath Moth S2, dorsal | | Laced Grey Heath Moth Female, dorsal | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera) | ||||
| Family: | Geometer (:Geometridae Oenochrominae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Banded Heath Moth (Dichromodes aristadelpha) | ||||
| This Photo: | 🔍S2, profile🔎 | ||||
Thank you Axel Kallies for identifying this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere We thought these were the same as Dichromodes MoV4, but Axel suggests these are different & very close to D. compsotis. We then found D. aristadelpha and suggested it as a possibility and Axel said "compsotis and aristadelpha are similar for sure". Later Axel said "I just had another look at the ANIC and BOLD data. Based on that, compsodes and aristadelpha are sister species, one in the west only and one in the west and east. So, perhaps aristadelpha is the name to use for the moment. But I am not sure this is set in stone ..." | |||||
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