![]() | Flat Crest-moth Male: Body | Maroon-spot Cape-moth Dorsal | ![]() | |||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||
Order: | Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera) | ||||
Family: | Geometer (:Geometridae Ennominae Nacophorini) | ||||
Species: | Flat Crest-moth (Fisera sp ES2?) | ||||
This Photo: | Male: ventral | ||||
General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere About 11mm long & 28mm wingspan. A russet brown colour with a line of irregular spots along the rear of the forewings. Males have the plumose (bipectinate) antennae, where as females do not (having thread like, filiform antennae). While this matches the wing patterns of Amelora cryphia, Amelora don't have thoracic crests. As such, must be a different species. Similar in colour to our Fisera sp, it has a very difference stance. Fisera sp hold their wings in a tent arrangement, these hold them more typically flat. | |||||
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