![]() | Rusty Snout Moth Male, profile | Rusty Snout Moth Male, Antenna Filaments | ![]() | |||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||
Order: | Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera) | ||||
Family: | Snout Moth (:Bombycoidea Lasiocampidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
Species: | Rusty Snout Moth (Symphyta MoV1) | ||||
This Photo: | 🔍Male, Hindwing🔎 | ||||
Thank you Axel Kallies for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~18mm long, ~35mm wingspan. They have very finely scoloped trailing wings, with the points highlighted with black. A very buff looking moth. We've photographed 4 males that came to night lights in Nov, Dec & Jan. | |||||
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