![]() | Flecked Wave Dorsal | Tree-ring Moth S3, Female, dorsal | ![]() | |||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||
Order: | Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera) | ||||
Family: | Geometer (:Geometridae Sterrhinae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
Species: | Tree-ring Moth (Scopula episcia) | ||||
This Photo: | S1, Male, dorsal | ||||
Thank you Axel Kallies for identifying this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere 1st Live Photo on-line: Head & body ~8mm, wingspan ~28mm. We questioned Axel over the different shaped dark band. He pointed to a conversation he had on someone else's observation, that matches ours, where he said "There is actually DNA data available on BOLD and you can download a tree. Specimens like yours group nicely with others from WA under episcia." Axel says the moth referred to in the MoV books as Scopula sp 3 is also this species. | |||||
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