Bold Phrataria
S3, Female, profile
Ellura
Bold Phrataria
S2, Male, Partial Hindwing
 
                 
Bold Phrataria (Phrixocomes hedrasticha)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, Antenna🔎

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

Copyright © 2020-2025 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 19-Mar-2020
This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.