Dinophalus atmoscia (Meyrick, 1890)
OENOCHROMINAE,   GEOMETRIDAE,   GEOMETROIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Dinophalus atmoscia
(Photo: courtesy of Jesse & Peter Koch, West Mount Barren, Western Australia)

The adult moths of this species have wings that each have basically a grey basal half, and a brown marginal half, separated by a partial dark line. The forewings also a have a thin wavy dark line in the basal half. The wing margins are scalloped. The wingspan of both sexes is about 3.5 cms.

Dinophalus atmoscia
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The species occurs in

  • Western Australia.


    Further reading :

    Edward Meyrick,
    Revision of Australian Lepidoptera III,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Series 2, Volume 4, Part 4 (1890), p. 1213, No. 83.


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    (written 21 January 2022)