Bold Phrataria
S2, Male, Antenna
Bold Phrataria
S3, Female, Partial Hindwing
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| Bold Phrataria S2, Male, Antenna | | Bold Phrataria S3, Female, Partial Hindwing | | ||
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 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||||||||||
| Order: | Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera) | |||||||||||||
| Family: | Geometer (:Geometridae Oenochrominae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||
| Species: | Bold Phrataria (Phrixocomes hedrasticha)| This Photo: | 🔍S2, Male, Partial Hindwing🔎 | Thank you Axel Kallies & (BaronSamedi ) for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~13mm long These are quite unusual in that the males have pectinate antennae. While female's are filiform. They have tufts of their forewings, which look like black spots in the dorsal views. We think of these as Nola mimics; probably because we discovered Nola moths first
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