Bold Phrataria
S3, Female, profile
Bold Phrataria
S2, Male, Partial Hindwing
| Bold Phrataria S3, Female, profile | | Bold Phrataria S2, Male, Partial Hindwing | | ||
 | 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 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 mono-pectinate, or uni-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 We've photographed 4 specimens in Jan, Feb & Mar | |||||
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