Webbed Grey
Male, profile, note the Tufts
Webbed Grey
Male, underwings
| Webbed Grey Male, profile, note the Tufts | | Webbed Grey Male, underwings | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera) | ||||
| Family: | Geometer (:Geometridae Geometrinae) | ||||
| Species: | Webbed Grey (Rhuma argyraspis) | ||||
| This Photo: | Male, Hindwing | ||||
General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~14mm long, wingspan ~29mm. Male antennae are bipectinate, females filiform. It took a long time to id this one (hours) because we thought it was a type of double spot (albeit with no spots , which is in a totally different family. Only when we went to the geometrids as a last resort did we find it. Similar Species: Tufted Double-spot Moth (Epicyrtica cf MoV3) | |||||
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