Grey & White Satin Moth
Female, dorsal, wings open
Grey & White Satin Moth
Female, profile
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| Grey & White Satin Moth Female, dorsal, wings open | | Grey & White Satin Moth Female, profile | | ||
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 | 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, dorsal, wings closed🔎 | 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!
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