Horehound Plume Moth: Adult, dorsal

Horehound Plume Moth (Wheeleria spilodactylus)

Class:

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

Order:

Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera)

Family:

Plume Moth (:Pterophorioidea Pterophoridae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Horehound Plume Moth (Wheeleria spilodactylus)

This Photo:

🔍Adult, dorsal🔎

Thank you Donald Hobern for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
~9mm long, ~17mm natural wingspan.
It has striped legs and striped wings.

This species is classed as

If (Foreign Introduction)

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