Rusty Snout Moth: S8, Male, profile

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:

🔍S8, Male, profile🔎

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).
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.

This species is

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

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