Plantain Moth: S1, Female, Dark Morph, ventral

Class:

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

Order:

Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera)

Family:

Geometer (Geometridae:Sterrhinae)

Species:

Plantain Moth (Scopula rubraria)

This Photo:

S1, Female, Dark Morph, ventral

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills and elsewhere
Note the dark and white striped antennae in this species, it's quite noticable. Males have reasonably obvious filaments.

This species is

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

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