Inconspicuous Eublemma
S2, dorsal
Undescribed Lichen Moth
S3, Male, dorsal
| Inconspicuous Eublemma S2, dorsal | | Undescribed Lichen Moth S3, Male, dorsal | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera) | ||||
| Family: | Tiger Moth (:Noctuoidea Erebidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Undescribed Lichen Moth (Eutane ANIC1) | ||||
| This Photo: | 🔍S1, Female, dorsal🔎 | ||||
Thank you Axel Kallies for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~12mm long females. The females both dropped eggs in the pot. Both genders had filiform antennae. A good id match, except for the body colour, which appears black on Bold. They were day flying, around a Westringia rigida bush, not in flower. However they had a habit of being on the ground. So the Westringia rigida may be a furphy; or may support a particular type of lichen. There's plenty of lichen on the ground, and on the bush; but different types of course. Each Lichen species depends on a certain substrate type (timber, ground/rock, etc). This genus is known from coastal Qld & NSW. We photographed 2 females & 2 males in Feb (on the same day, same spot) | |||||
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