Tufted Moth: Profile

Class:

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

Order:

Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera)

Family:

Seed Borer (:Gelechioidea Cosmopterigidae)

Species:

Tufted Moth (Trachydora sp)

This Photo:

Profile

Other name:

Shark Moth

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
Estimated wingspan from the flyscreen is ~12mm. A small moth with a number of tufted scales on the back, with orange bases, and the trailing forewings are turned up when at rest.

This species is

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

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