Grey Bark Moth: Female: dorsal

Class:

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

Order:

Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera)

Family:

Geometer (:Geometridae Ennominae Boarmiini)

Species:

Grey Bark Moth (Lipogya eutheta)

This Photo:

Female: dorsal

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
Head & body ~11mm, wingspan ~14mm.
Males have obvious bipectinate antennae, where as females have filiform.
Has 2 scale tufts on the back of it's neck.
One specimen found in September.

This species is

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

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