Russet Crest-moth: Female, Horn

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)

Order:

Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera)

Family:

Geometer (:Geometridae Ennominae Nacophorini) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Russet Crest-moth (Fisera MoV2)

This Photo:

Female, Horn

Thank you Craig Polkinghorne for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
This is figured in Moths of Victoria part 5 as Fisera sp. (2)
The hindwings trail with a dirty purple band underneath.
A brown speckled cream body.
Males have bipectinate antennae (2 rows of filaments), while females (shown here) have thread-like antennae (filiform).
The front legs are brown, while the rear 4 are white.
A fairly large moth with a wingspan of ~50mm and body & head length of ~16mm

This species is

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

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