Plantain Moth: S3, Female, Light Morph, dorsal

Class:

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

Order:

Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera)

Family:

Geometer (:Geometridae Sterrhinae)

Species:

Plantain Moth (Scopula rubraria)

This Photo:

S3, Female, Light Morph, dorsal

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills and elsewhere
Note the dark and white striped antennae in this species, it's quite noticable. Males have reasonably obvious filaments.

This species is

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

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