Brown Cutworm Moth: S5, Female, profile

Class:

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

Order:

Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera)

Family:

Owlet moth (Noctuoidea:Noctuidae:Noctuinae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Brown Cutworm Moth (Agrotis munda)

This Photo:

S5, Female, profile

Thank you Prof Victor W Fazio III†, Karen Weaving & Leon Crang 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
~16mm long, wingspan ~36mm.
Males have bipectinate antennae, while females have filiform.

This species is

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

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