Colourful Timber Moth Profile | Calico Stem-borer Moth S2, Male, dorsal | |||||
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| 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: | 🔍Showing Antenna Length🔎 | 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"
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