Grey-spotted Wave
S1, dorsal
White-edged Wave
S5, dorsal
Animals
Plants
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| Grey-spotted Wave S1, dorsal | | White-edged Wave S5, dorsal | | ||
Animals Plants Info |
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||||||||||
| Order: | Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera) | |||||||||||||
| Family: | Geometer (:Geometridae Sterrhinae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||
| Species: | White-edged Wave (Idaea costaria)| This Photo: | S1, dorsal | Thank you Mike Burrell for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills, the Flinders Ranges and elsewhere ~14 to ~17mm natural wingspan. These moths are very distinctive with a pale band across the leading edge of their wings and brown-red edging to the trailing edges of all wings. These are very similar to Idaea inversata. These have the pale stripe between the antennae, where as I. inversata has a single coloured head with no stripe.
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