Black Heath Moth: S3, Male, ventral

Class:

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

Order:

Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera)

Family:

Geometer (:Geometridae Oenochrominae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Black Heath Moth (Dichromodes MoV4)

This Photo:

🔍S3, Male, ventral🔎

Thank you Axel Kallies for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
This is figured in Moths of Victoria (MoV) part 4 as Dichromodes sp (4).
Axel said "These things are pretty close to D. partitaria, but I am not sure one should use the name at this stage".

This species is

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

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