Colourful Timber Moth: Dorsal

Colourful Timber Moth (Brachybelistis blackburnii)

Class:

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

Order:

Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera)

Family:

Oecophorid Moth (:Gelechioidea Oecophoridae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Colourful Timber Moth (Brachybelistis blackburnii)

This Photo:

🔍Dorsal🔎

Thank you Axel Kallies for identifying and Prof Victor W Fazio III† for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
~17mm long, ~37mm wingspan
We thought this might be Brachybelistis pentachroa, but Axel said these "dont have yellow hindwings"

This species is

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

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