Grey Snout Moth S3, dorsal | Grey Snout Moth S2, profile | |||||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||
Order: | Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera) | ||||
Family: | Grass Moth (:Pyraloidea Pyralidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
Species: | Grey Snout Moth (Meyrickiella homosema) | ||||
This Photo: | S1, profile | ||||
Thank you 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 ~8mm long & ~19mm wingspan. A very distinctive little moth where the palps turn up sharply making the face look quite square. A grey dappled appearance with indistinct pale yellow longitudinal stripes that look more like wear than scale colour (but they are coloured scales) | |||||
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