Bold Phrataria S2, Male, Partial Hindwing | Bold Phrataria S3, Female, ventral | |||||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||
Order: | Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera) | ||||
Family: | Geometer (:Geometridae Oenochrominae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
Species: | Bold Phrataria (Phrixocomes hedrasticha) | ||||
This Photo: | 🔍S3, Female, Partial Hindwing🔎 | ||||
Thank you Axel Kallies & (BaronSamedi ) for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~13mm long These are quite unusual in that the males have mono-pectinate, or uni-pectinate antennae. While female's are filiform. They have tufts of their forewings, which look like black spots in the dorsal views. We think of these as Nola mimics; probably because we discovered Nola moths first | |||||
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