Dryland Bark Moth
S2, Male, dorsal
Dryland Bark Moth
S2, Male, ventral
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| Dryland Bark Moth S2, Male, dorsal | | Dryland Bark Moth S2, Male, ventral | | ||
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 | 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: | S1, Male, underwing | 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 tentatively suggesting Scioglyptis chionomera. They are quite similar, and MoV (Moths of Victoria) Part 7 has excellent images of the diagnostic differences. S1 was quite worn making id difficult, but then S2 was fresher, on which Axel commented: "I think it is a Scioglyptis, but different from chionomera. The latter always has this little black half moon in the hindwing (lacking here). And there are a few other differences."
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