White-edged Wave S1, anterior | White-edged Wave S6, anterior | |||||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||
Order: | Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera) | ||||
Family: | Geometer (:Geometridae Sterrhinae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
Species: | White-edged Wave (Idaea costaria) | ||||
This Photo: | 🔍S5, anterior🔎 | ||||
Thank you Mike Burrell for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills, the Flinders Ranges and elsewhere ~14 to ~17mm natural wingspan. These moths are very distinctive with a pale band across the leading edge of their wings and brown-red edging to the trailing edges of all wings. These are very similar to Idaea inversata. These have the pale stripe between the antennae, where as I. inversata has a single coloured head with no stripe. | |||||
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