Plain Modest Moth: Anterior

Class:

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

Order:

Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera)

Family:

Oecophorid Moth (:Gelechioidea Oecophoridae)

Species:

Plain Modest Moth (Garrha carnea)

This Photo:

Anterior

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
Head & body ~8mm, wingspan ~24mm.
Like most Garrha, a flattened moth at rest, with very large up-curved palps, large eyes and scales that look like eyelashes above.
A vague dark brown dappled on pale brown appearance.

This species is

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

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