![]() | Insigillated Carpet Moth Male, profile | Insigillated Carpet Moth Male, ventral | ![]() | |||
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Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||||||||||||||
Order: | Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera) | |||||||||||||||
Family: | Geometer (:Geometridae Larentiinae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||||
Species: | Insigillated Carpet Moth (Chloroclystis insigillata)This Photo: | Male, Wing tuft | Synonym: | Sigilliclystis insigillata | Thank you Axel Kallies for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere Head & body ~7mm, wingspan ~20mm. Males have obvious deformations covered in scale tufts on the forwing costa (leading edge). The deformations are also visible underneath. Both males & females have filiform antennae.
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