![]() | White-lined Grass-moth Male, ventral | Ash-grey Geometrid Male | ![]() | |||
Animals Plants Info |
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||||||||||||
Order: | Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera) | |||||||||||||
Family: | Geometer (:Geometridae Ennominae Nacophorini) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||
Species: | Black-twisted Grass-moth (Ciampa melanostrepta)This Photo: | Female, partial Hindwing | Thank you Axel Kallies for identifying this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere 1st Live Photo on-line: Notice these have a small knobbly horn. Males & females have bipectinate antennae, with the males having very long pectinations.
|