Xerodes Plume Moth
S1, dorsal
Ellura
Xerodes Plume Moth
S6, dorsal & Abdomen
 
                      
Xerodes Plume Moth (Stangeia xerodes)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)
Order: Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera)
Family: Plume Moth (:Pterophorioidea Pterophoridae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Xerodes Plume Moth (Stangeia xerodes)
This Photo:     🔍S4, dorsal & Abdomen🔎

Thank you Dee Nolan for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills and elsewhere
~10mm Wingspan, ~4.5mm long.
Donald Hobern said "The easiest way to tell them apart" from Megalorhipida leucodactylus " with fresh specimens is to look at the black and white (or brown and white) lines down the hind legs. On xerodes, they run parallel along the top edge. On leucodactylus, they corkscrew near the joints."

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This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.