Forked Grass-moth: Male, hind wings

Class:

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

Order:

Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera)

Family:

Geometer (:Geometridae Ennominae Nacophorini)

Species:

Forked Grass-moth (Ciampa arietaria)

This Photo:

Male, hind wings

Other names:

Brown Pasture Looper, Forked Pasture-moth

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee), and elsewhere
A common moth which has some unique characteristics.
The larva curl up at the base of plants looking like new, unfurled leaves.
The adults have a forked horn projection out the front of it's head. It's hairless and not part of the palps; a separate structure.
Males have bipectinate (2 rowed) antennae, where as females have thin thread-like antennae.

This species is

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

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