Indian Meal Moth: Profile

Class:

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

Order:

Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera)

Family:

Grass Moth (:Pyraloidea Pyralidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Indian Meal Moth (Plodia interpunctella)

This Photo:

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Other names:

Indianmeal Moth or Indian-meal Moth

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
~7mm long, ~17mm wingspan

This species is classed as

If (Foreign Introduction)

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