Grey Snout Moth: S3, anterior

Class:

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

Order:

Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera)

Family:

Grass Moth (:Pyraloidea Pyralidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Grey Snout Moth (Meyrickiella homosema)

This Photo:

S3, anterior

Thank you Prof Victor W Fazio III† for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Flinders Ranges and elsewhere
~8mm long & ~19mm wingspan.
A very distinctive little moth where the palps turn up sharply making the face look quite square.
A grey dappled appearance with indistinct pale yellow longitudinal stripes that look more like wear than scale colour (but they are coloured scales)

This species is

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

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