![]() | Undescribed Wood Moth S2, Male?, profile | Undescribed Wood Moth S3, Female?, anterior | ![]() | |||
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Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||||||||||||
Order: | Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera) | |||||||||||||
Family: | Wood Moth (:Cossoidea Cossidae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||
Species: | Undescribed Wood Moth (Archaeoses ANIC1)This Photo: | S3, Female?, profile | Thank you Prof Victor W Fazio III & Axel Kallies for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere This is figured on Bold as Archaeoses ANIC1 These vary in size between 14mm up to 21mm head & body length. It seems the larger ones have fatter bodies and suspect them to be females; with the shorter, slimmer ones males.
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