Snowy Swift Moth: S3, Adult, profile

Class:

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

Order:

Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera)

Family:

Wingia Moth (Gelechioidea:Oecophoridae:Wingia) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Snowy Swift Moth (Ocystola chionea)

This Photo:

🔍S3, Adult, profile🔎

Thank you Axel Kallies & Leon Crang for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
~7mm long, wingspan ~19mm.
With the hairy head, it looks a bit like a case moth.
The "Snowy" in the name refers to the white colour, not the NSW mountains.
Notice the two specimens have different coloured heads.

This species is

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

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