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Destolmia lineata (♀)

Destolmia lineata

Description:

Fat furry moth 40mm long. Beautifully soft looking and in excellent eucalyptus bark camouflage colours - grey with fine brown flecks. Simple underlying venation?

Habitat:

This one on window glass - within open dry sclerophyll eucalyptus forest.

Notes:

On a window I could easily catch both sides It's got a very flat face for a moth.

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2 Comments

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 10 years ago

Think I got it Martin. Notodontidae would you believe.

MartinL
MartinL 12 years ago

I don't think my Endoxyla suggestion works so well... we'll have to keep looking.

Mark Ridgway
Spotted by
Mark Ridgway

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Spotted on Jan 11, 2012
Submitted on Jan 14, 2012

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