Small Wood Moth: Male, dorsal

Small Wood Moth (Sympycnodes arachnophora)

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, dorsal

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.

This species is

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

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