White Streaked Crambid
Male, Hindwing
Ellura
Yellow Striped Crambid
Dorsal, length ~10mm, wingspan ~15mm
 
                      
White Streaked Crambid (Eudonia cleodoralis)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)
Order: Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera)
Family: Crambid Snout Moth (:Pyraloidea Crambidae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: White Streaked Crambid (Eudonia cleodoralis)
This Photo:     Male, ventral
Synonym: Scoparia cleodoralis

Thank you Abbey Throssell for identifying, Prof Victor W Fazio III† & Michael Keogh for confirming and David Akers for helping with the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills and elsewhere
The usual diagnostic feature of having different antennae does not seem to separate out the genders with this species. We have assumed the fatter body is female.

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This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.