Dry-country Line-moth: Female, profile

Class:

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

Order:

Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera)

Family:

Geometer (:Geometridae Ennominae Nacophorini) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Dry-country Line-moth (Dysbatus sp)

This Photo:

🔍Female, profile🔎

Thank you Axel Kallies & Craig Polkinghorne for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
~12mm long.
Bipectinate antennae, with the females having smaller pectinations than the males.
We thought this was Dysbatus singularis, but Axel said "This is an undescribed species, also common in NW Victoria"

This species is

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

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