Crest-moth: Male

Class:

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

Order:

Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera)

Family:

Geometer (:Geometridae Ennominae Nacophorini)

Species:

Crest-moth (Fisera sp ES1)

This Photo:

Male

Thank you Marilyn Hewish for identifying this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
We thought this was Amelora nebulosa, but Marilyn indicates it's not an Amelora due to the thoracic crest. Most likely a Fisera sp, but she doesn't recognise it.
Marilyn also said A. nebulosa is a mountain species, and that the way it's holding it's wings is indicitive of Fisera as well.

This species is

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

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