Ochre-headed Taxeotis Moth
S5, dorsal
Ochre-headed Taxeotis Moth
S5, profile
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| Ochre-headed Taxeotis Moth S5, dorsal | | Ochre-headed Taxeotis Moth S5, profile | | ||
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 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||||||||||
| Order: | Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera) | |||||||||||||
| Family: | Geometer (Geometridae:Oenochrominae) | |||||||||||||
| Species: | Ochre-headed Taxeotis Moth (Taxeotis exsectaria)| This Photo: | S3, profile | General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~7mm long, wingspan ~20mm. Antennae of males & females are filiform, as such any with pectinate antennae are not taxeotis. Taxeotis moths are notoriously difficult to id. We've gone with T. exsectaria due to the ochre head, which is diagnostic, but the ochre wing bands are not seen on other examples. As such, this may be an undescribed species, which also has an ochre head. Hopefully it's just a local variation of T. excectaria.
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