Orange-spotted Sun Moth Female? Ventral | Undescribed Wood Moth S2, Male?, dorsal | |||||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||
Order: | Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera) | ||||
Family: | Wood Moth (:Cossoidea Cossidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
Species: | Undescribed Wood Moth (Archaeoses ANIC1) | ||||
This Photo: | S1, Male?, dorsal | ||||
Thank you Prof Victor W Fazio III & Axel Kallies for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere This is figured on Bold as Archaeoses ANIC1 These vary in size between 14mm up to 21mm head & body length. It seems the larger ones have fatter bodies and suspect them to be females; with the shorter, slimmer ones males. | |||||
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