Yellow Striped Crambid
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Adelaide Hills
Yellow Striped Crambid
Camouflage
 
                      
Yellow Striped Crambid (Glaucocharis dilatella)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)
Order: Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera)
Family: Crambid Snout Moth (:Pyraloidea Crambidae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Yellow Striped Crambid (Glaucocharis dilatella)
This Photo:     Palps
Other name: Ocellated Web Moth

Thank you Dr Bevan Buirchell for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found in the Adelaide Hills and possibly elsewhere
A stunning little moth on screen, yet nondescript to the naked eye.
Generally sits with it's legs forward and antennae laid back over it's body.
Large scaly palps held out forward making quite a snout
The forewings wings trail with longitudinal short yellow stripes separated by black marks. Followed by metallic silver, black, then silver transverse stripes.

Copyright © 2016-2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 07-Oct-2016
This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.