![]() | Crescent Cape-moth Female: profle | Variable Cape-moth Female, dorsal | ![]() | |||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||
Order: | Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera) | ||||
Family: | Geometer (:Geometridae Ennominae Nacophorini) | ||||
Species: | Crescent Cape-moth (Amelora idiomorpha) | ||||
This Photo: | Female: ventral | ||||
General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), and elsewhere About 11m long & 27mm wingspan. Males have bipectinate (2 rowed) antennae, where as females have thin thread-like antennae. | |||||
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