Gum Snout Moth Male, Antenna | Gum Snout Moth Male, ventral | |||||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||
Order: | Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera) | ||||
Family: | Snout Moth (:Bombycoidea Lasiocampidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
Species: | Gum Snout Moth (Entometa guttularis) | ||||
This Photo: | 🔍Male, Antenna, end on🔎 | ||||
Thank you Matt Campbell for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~25mm long, with starkly contrasting red to orange hind wings. Pretty rare in SA. Can be separated from the more usual Entometa fervens by the lack of a dark patch under the hind wing. | |||||
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