White-edged Wave: S1, anterior

Class:

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

Order:

Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera)

Family:

Geometer (:Geometridae Sterrhinae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

White-edged Wave (Idaea costaria)

This Photo:

S1, anterior

Thank you Mike Burrell for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills, the Flinders Ranges and elsewhere
~14 to ~17mm natural wingspan.
These moths are very distinctive with a pale band across the leading edge of their wings and brown-red edging to the trailing edges of all wings.
These are very similar to Idaea inversata. These have the pale stripe between the antennae, where as I. inversata has a single coloured head with no stripe.

This species is

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

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