Chequered Ghost Moth
Male, ventral
White-shouldered Moth
S1, Female, profile
| Chequered Ghost Moth Male, ventral | | White-shouldered Moth S1, Female, profile | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera) | ||||
| Family: | Swift Moth (:Hepialoidea Hepialidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Chequered Ghost Moth (Fraus polyspila) | ||||
| This Photo: | 🔍Male, ventral🔎 | ||||
| Other name: | Chequered Fraus | ||||
Thank you Prof Victor W Fazio III† for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~13mm long & 32mm wingspan. Typically Ghost moths are amoung the larger moths in Australia, spanning the width of a large hand. So it was a complete surprise to us to realise this little moth was in the same family as the giants Apparantly the scales fall off very easily so on-line photo's look very different to each other as the pattern dissapears. Thanks Ethan for letting us know the one we found is a male. | |||||
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