White-lined Grass-moth: Male, Horn

White-lined Grass-moth (Ciampa heteromorpha)

Class:

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

Order:

Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera)

Family:

Geometer (:Geometridae Ennominae Nacophorini)

Species:

White-lined Grass-moth (Ciampa heteromorpha)

This Photo:

Male, Horn

Other name:

White-lined Pasture-moth

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
Head & body ~12mm, wingspan ~28mm.
Note that, like the related Forked Grass-moth, this species also has a facial horn; diamond shaped.
As with others in the genus, both genders have bipectinate (2 rowed) antennae, where the males pectinations are long & the females are short.

This species is

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

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