Grey Bark Moth: S21, Adult Female, dorsal

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, Adult Female, dorsal

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.
Males have bipectinate antennae (where the pectinations are very long), while the females have filiform antennae.
Thanks to Axel Kallies for letting us know our S21 here (which we thought was Lipoya eutheta) is Lipogya exprimataria.

This species is

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

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