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Banded Wattle Moth

Macrobathra bigerella

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Field Notes

Description:

small, under 1cm. Black and brown with tufted wings at rear when at rest

Habitat:

in a garden by an all night light

Notes:

file #black and brown jjl
Macrobathra http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/cosm/cosm-moths.html
The thing that still concerne me about the identification is the shape of the head of this moth which is a lot more like Limnaecia tetraplanetis. That moth is nearby the referenced species in http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/cosm/cosm-moths.html. The head only

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