Bold Phrataria: S2, Male, dorsal

Bold Phrataria (Phrixocomes hedrasticha)

Class:

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

Order:

Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera)

Family:

Geometer (Geometridae:Oenochrominae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Bold Phrataria (Phrixocomes hedrasticha)

This Photo:

🔍S2, Male, dorsal🔎

Thank you Axel Kallies & (BaronSamedi) for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
~13mm long
The males have unipectinate antennae, while female's are filiform.
They have tufts of their forewings, which look like black spots in the dorsal views.
We think of these as Nola mimics; probably because we discovered Nola moths first

This species is

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

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