![]() | Four-spot Cape-moth S1, Male, profile | Four-spot Cape-moth S1, Male, ventral | ![]() | |||
Animals Plants Info |
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||||||||||||||
Order: | Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera) | |||||||||||||||
Family: | Geometer (:Geometridae Ennominae Nacophorini) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||||
Species: | Four-spot Cape-moth (Androchela milvaria)This Photo: | S1, Male, anterior | Synonym: | Amelora milvaria | Thank you Ned Fisher for confirming and Axel Kallies for helping with the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere Males have bipectinate (2 rowed) antennae, females have filiform. The 2 lateral lines are made up of spots, that are joined with dark shading. Between the lines also tends to be a darker band. As the name suggests, there is a large central black spot on all four wings.
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