Serrated Crest-moth: Male: Hingwing

Class:

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

Order:

Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera)

Family:

Geometer (:Geometridae Ennominae Nacophorini)

Species:

Serrated Crest-moth (Nisista serrata)

This Photo:

Male: Hingwing

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
Head & body ~15mm, wingspan ~34mm.
Males & females have bipectinate antennae (2 rows of filaments), with males having longer pectinations as shown here.
A male found in August.

This species is

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

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