Southern Armyworm
S09 Male, Antennae & Hairy Eyes
Woolly-bodied Golden Moth
S2, profile
| Southern Armyworm S09 Male, Antennae & Hairy Eyes | | Woolly-bodied Golden Moth S2, profile | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera) | ||||
| Family: | Owlet moth (:Noctuoidea Noctuidae Noctuinae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Southern Armyworm (Persectania ewingii) | ||||
| This Photo: | 🔍S11 Female, Hindwing🔎 | ||||
Thank you Michael Keogh for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere Females are consistently ~44mm wingspan, while males vary a bit from ~40 to ~46mm wingspan. Females have filiform antennae with some fine hairs under. Males have similar, but are serrated underneath with longer & more sensorary hairs. See the antennae comparison under P. dyscrita above. Both genders have quite hairy eyes. Both Persectania species we get here have the 2 black ventral dashes on their abdomen (2 per segment). They vary in length from lines to elongated spots (to no black marks at all in some males). There doesn't seem any relationship between this variation and species. It is much less obvious in males, but some still get them. | |||||
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