Undescribed Wood Moth: S5, Female?, ventral

Undescribed Wood Moth (Archaeoses ANIC1)

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:

S5, Female?, ventral

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.

This species is

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

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