Stippled Line-moth
S5 Male, dorsal
Stippled Line-moth
S4 Female, dorsal
| Stippled Line-moth S5 Male, dorsal | | Stippled Line-moth S4 Female, dorsal | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera) | ||||
| Family: | Geometer (:Geometridae Ennominae Nacophorini) | ||||
| Species: | Stippled Line-moth (Smyriodes trigramma) | ||||
| This Photo: | S3 Female, dorsal | ||||
General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere Head & body ~13mm, wingspan ~35mm. Males have bipectinate antennae, females have filiform. There are brown & grey forms, with the black lines varying considerably in strength. They are not easy to photograph, with different angles giving quite different colours. Identification difficulty is compounded as they wrap themselves with their wings, looking very different to their spread out state - making the indiscriminate lines difficult to follow. Similar Species: Ash-grey Geometrid (Corula geometroides) | |||||
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