Undescribed Lichen Moth
S1, Female, Body, dorsal
Ellura
Undescribed Lichen Moth
S1, Female, anterior
 
                      
Undescribed Lichen Moth (Eutane ANIC1)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)
Order: Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera)
Family: Tiger Moth (:Noctuoidea Erebidae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Undescribed Lichen Moth (Eutane ANIC1)
This Photo:     🔍S1, Female, Antenna🔎

Thank you Axel Kallies for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
~12mm long females. The females both dropped eggs in the pot. Both genders had filiform antennae.
A good id match, except for the body colour, which appears black on Bold.
They were day flying, around a Westringia rigida bush, not in flower. However they had a habit of being on the ground. So the Westringia rigida may be a furphy; or may support a particular type of lichen. There's plenty of lichen on the ground, and on the bush; but different types of course. Each Lichen species depends on a certain substrate type (timber, ground/rock, etc). This genus is known from coastal Qld & NSW.

Copyright © 2023-2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 26-Feb-2023
This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.