Black-spotted Moth
Southern Twig Moth
S2, Dorsal
| Black-spotted Moth | | Southern Twig Moth S2, Dorsal | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera) | ||||
| Family: | Twig Moth (:Gelechioidea Hypertrophidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Twisted Black-spotted Twig Moth (Eupselia melanostrepta) | ||||
| This Photo: | 🔍S1, profile🔎 | ||||
General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere 1st Record in SA on Atlas: ~5.5mm long. Notice the metallic sheen to the black trailing spots. Leon Crang kindly advised there is another moth that looks the same, Eupselia theorella, neight of which have been recorded in SA before (nor in the NW Vic, which is a similar bioregion connected by the Murray River). So, as always, please take our id with caution. We may lift to genus in time. | |||||
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