Cabbage Moth: Profile

Class:

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

Order:

Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera)

Family:

Diamondback Moth (:Yponomeutoid Plutellidae)

Species:

Cabbage Moth (Plutella cf xylostella)

This Photo:

Profile

Synonym:

Plutella xylostella-australiana

Other name:

Diamondback Moth

Thank you Alan Melville for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found in the Adelaide Hills and possibly elsewhere
This introduced species is highly variable in it's colours. The antennae always have banding, however, and point forward.

This species is classed as

If (Foreign Introduction)

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