Small Wood Moth Male, Antennae | Shark moth | |||||
Animals Plants Info |
| Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||||||||||||||
| Order: | Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera) | |||||||||||||||
| Family: | Wood Moth (Cossoidea:Cossidae) | |||||||||||||||
| Species: | Small Wood Moth (Sympycnodes arachnophora)| This Photo: | Male, ventral | Other name: | Small Goat Moth | Thank you Axel Kallies for identifying this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere Head & body ~22mm, wingspan ~40mm. We previously thought this was Sympycnodes epicycla.
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