| OENOCHROMINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
male
(Photo: courtesy of Olga Schmidt, Queensland Museum)
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| OENOCHROMINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
male
(Photo: courtesy of Olga Schmidt, Queensland Museum)
The adult moths of this species have brown wings, with a pale wavy submarginal band across each forewing. The females have thread-like antennae. The males have unipectinate antennae. The wingspan is about 2.5 cms.
The species occurs in
Further reading :
Olga Schmidt,
An annotated and illustrated list
of the primary type specimens of geometrid moths
deposited in the Queensland Museum (Australia, Brisbane),
Spixiana,
Volume 5, Part 1 (2012), pp. 79-100, Figs. 47 a,b.
A. Jefferis Turner,
Revision of Australian Oenochromidae (Lepidoptera) II,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 55 (1930), p. 15, No. 97.
 caterpillar |  butterflies |  Lepidoptera |  moths |  caterpillar |
(written 18 June 2015, updated 9 September 2020)