Dryland Bark Moth: Male, dorsal

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)

Order:

Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera)

Family:

Geometer (:Geometridae Ennominae Boarmiini) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Dryland Bark Moth (Scioglyptis sp)

This Photo:

🔍Male, dorsal🔎

Thank you Marilyn Hewish for identifying and Axel Kallies for helping with the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
~10mm long & 28mm wingspan.
Males have very large bipectinate (2 rowed) antennae, where as the females have thin thread-like antennae.
We thought this was Scioglyptis loxographa, but Marilyn Hewish kindly advised otherwise. They are quite similar, and MoV (Moths of Victoria) Part 7 has excellent images of the diagnostic differences.
This is a worn specimen making id difficult.

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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