Male Hecatesia fenestrata
© Donald Hobern
To MV light, Aranda, ACT, 9.00 p.m., 21 November 2010 This is a male Whistling Moth, able to produce a whistling sound with the knobs on the costa of the forewing and the ribbed, scale-free areas just behind the knobs. According to Common, Moths of Australia , it is usually the females (which lack these characters) which come to light.
Photo taken on 22 Nov 2010
Photograph location coordinates are -35.263927:149.08333.
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