Pink Modest Moth
Ventral
Adelaide Hills
Brown House Moth
Dorsal, sharper
 
                      
Brown House Moth (Hofmannophila pseudospretella)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)
Order: Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera)
Family: Oecophorid Moth (:Gelechioidea Oecophoridae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Brown House Moth (Hofmannophila pseudospretella)
This Photo:     Dorsal, natural colour

Thank you Prof Victor W Fazio III† for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found in the Adelaide Hills and possibly elsewhere

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This species is classed as If (Foreign Introduction)