Rusty Snout Moth
S4, Male, dorsal
Rusty Snout Moth
S6, Male, dorsal
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| Rusty Snout Moth S4, Male, dorsal | | Rusty Snout Moth S6, Male, dorsal | | ||
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 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||||||||||
| Order: | Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera) | |||||||||||||
| Family: | Snout Moth (Bombycoidea:Lasiocampidae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||
| Species: | Rusty Snout Moth (Symphyta MoV1)| This Photo: | 🔍S5, Male, dorsal🔎 | 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 ~18mm long, ~35mm wingspan. This is figured in Moths of Victoria (MoV) part 1 as Symphyta sp. (1). Both Males & Females have bipectinate antennae, but of different length. It's very difficult to differentiate them in photo's. They have very finely scoloped trailing wings, with the points highlighted in black. A very buff looking moth. Usually they sit with their antennae tucked away under their wings, but we got one with it's antennae protruding.
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