Grey & White Satin Moth: Female, Horn

Grey & White Satin Moth (Thalaina kimba)

Class:

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

Order:

Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera)

Family:

Geometer (:Geometridae Ennominae Nacophorini) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Grey & White Satin Moth (Thalaina kimba)

This Photo:

🔍Female, Horn🔎

Other name:

Grey and White Satin Moth

Thank you Prof Victor W Fazio III† for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
Female ~45mm wingspan, ~16mm long. Females & males both have filiform antennae, so have to determine gender from body shape.
Found this BEHIND the bottom of the night sheet. It's nose and a tiny bit of it's front wings (costa) was showing. Almost didn't see it! How lucky was that!

This species is

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

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