Dry-country Line-moth: Female, dorsal

Dry-country Line-moth (Dysbatus singularis)

Class:

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

Order:

Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera)

Family:

Geometer (:Geometridae Ennominae Nacophorini) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Dry-country Line-moth (Dysbatus singularis)

This Photo:

🔍Female, dorsal🔎

Thank you Craig Polkinghorne for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
~12mm long.
Bipectinate antennae, with the females having smaller pectinations than the males.
Found one Female in Jan

This species is

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

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