Foolish Line-moth: S2, Male, partial Hindwings

Class:

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

Order:

Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera)

Family:

Geometer (:Geometridae Ennominae Nacophorini) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Foolish Line-moth (Stibaroma aphronesa)

This Photo:

S2, Male, partial Hindwings

Thank you Axel Kallies for identifying this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
~16mm long, ~33mm wingspan. Males have bipectinate antennae, while females have filiform antennae.
We originally though this was Stibaroma melanotoxa.
We have posted a number of individuals here to show how much this species can vary.

This species is

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

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