Spring Taxeotis
Orange-spotted Taxeotis
Female, Dorsal
| Spring Taxeotis | | Orange-spotted Taxeotis Female, Dorsal | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera) | ||||
| Family: | Geometer (:Geometridae Oenochrominae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Orange-spotted Taxeotis (Taxeotis xanthogramma) | ||||
| This Photo: | 🔍Dorsal🔎 | ||||
Thank you Axel Kallies for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere We got these mixed up with our undescribed Oenochrominae sp. Unusually, for a moth, the dorsal patterns are almost the same; with varying degrees of darkness (ie sometimes spots, etc, are not visible). However, the shape of the wings separates these out. A note of caution though. We've included 2 photo's of the same female specimen here to highlight how, with photo's, wing shape can change dramatically. Take a careful look at the right wing. In the first shot it's sitting up on a clear pot and looks a different shape to the second where it's resting on the table more naturally. Similar Species: Undescribed Heath Moth (Tapinogyna sp ES02) | |||||
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