Russet Crest-moth
Female, Antenna
Russet Crest-moth
Female, under Hindwings
| Russet Crest-moth Female, Antenna | | Russet Crest-moth Female, under Hindwings | | ||
 | 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 | |||||
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