Angled Satin Moth: Female, dorsal

Class:

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

Order:

Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera)

Family:

Geometer (:Geometridae Ennominae Nacophorini) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Angled Satin Moth (Thalaina angulosa)

This Photo:

🔍Female, dorsal🔎

Other name:

Blotched Satin Moth

Thank you Matt Campbell (MattCampbellAUS) for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
~16mm long & ~40mm wingspan.
Genders are very similar and difficult to separate in the field. Getting a detailed shot of the antennae shows the male with bipectinate antennae; having short pectinations. The female antennae is filiform, but hairing underneath.

This species is

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

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