Streaked Heath Moth: Female, antennae

Streaked Heath Moth (Aglossophanes pachygramma)

Class:

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

Order:

Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera)

Family:

Geometer (:Geometridae Oenochrominae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Streaked Heath Moth (Aglossophanes pachygramma)

This Photo:

🔍Female, antennae🔎

Thank you Matt Campbell & Prof Victor W Fazio III† for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
1st Live Photo on-line:
~8mm (head & body) & ~20mm wingspan
Males have mildly bipectinate antennae, females are filiform (thread like).
The hindwing can be plain or have paler lateral stripe matching the forewing. Of the few images available on-line, it appears the females have more of a hindwing stripe than males.

This species is

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

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