Taxeotis didymosticha

Taxeotis didymosticha Turner, 1939
Twins' Taxeotis
OENOCHROMINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

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

The adult moths of this species are pale greyish-brown with arcs of dark dots on the wings. The forewings each also have a broad tapering dark wavy band along the margin edged with yellow. The wingspan is about 2 cms. The males and the females in this genus both have thread-like antennae.

The species has been found in

Victoria,

South Australia, and

Western Australia.

Further reading :

Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria: Part 4,
Emeralds and Allies - GEOMETROIDEA (B),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2012, pp. 16-17.

A. Jefferis Turner,
New Australian Lepidoptera,
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland,
Volume 50 (1939), pp. 137-138.