Rock Lichen Moth Male, profile | Rock Lichen Moth Male, Orange Abdomen Tip | |||||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||
Order: | Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera) | ||||
Family: | Tiger Moth (:Noctuoidea Erebidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
Species: | Rock Lichen Moth (Halone sp ES01) | ||||
This Photo: | Male, neck | ||||
Thank you Don Herbison-Evans, Axel Kallies & Donald Hobern for helping with the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~22mm wingspan. We suspected this was H. sinuata. Has orange hind wings which we were unable to photograph. Has the orange tip on the abdomen. Antennae are very finely pectinate. There are 2 records of Halone consolatrix in SA in the bold bins, so on location, H consolatrix would be the choice. But doesn't look right. Halones do seem variable though. Donald questioned our id, saying "Halone as a whole is challenging". Axel lifted it to genus saying "Not sure what it is, but I dont think sinuata is right." | |||||
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