Grey Bark Moth
S1, Male, profile
Ellura
Grey Bark Moth
S21, Female, anterior
 
                      
Grey Bark Moth (Lipogya exprimataria)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)
Order: Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera)
Family: Geometer (:Geometridae Ennominae Boarmiini)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Grey Bark Moth (Lipogya exprimataria)
This Photo:     S21, Female, profile
Synonym: Larentia exprimataria

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
~10mm long and wingspan of ~22mm.
Thanks to Axel Kallies for letting us know our S21 here (which we thought was Lipoya eutheta) is Lipogya exprimataria.

Copyright © 2018-2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 27-Sep-2018
This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.