| Pale Grey Heath Moth (one synonym : Dichromodes tritospila Turner, 1943) OENOCHROMINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Mark Heath, Perth, Western Australia)
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| Pale Grey Heath Moth (one synonym : Dichromodes tritospila Turner, 1943) OENOCHROMINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Mark Heath, Perth, Western Australia)
The adult moths of this species have forewings that are greyish brown, each with two larger black marks on the costa, a complex black and brown mark in the middle. The hindwings are plain grey-brown. The moths normally rest with the forewings covering the hindwings. The females have threadlike antennae. The males have antennae with a feather-like fringe on one side. The wingspan is about 2.5 cms.
Th species has been found in
Further Reading
Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria: Part 4,
Emeralds and Allies - GEOMETROIDEA (B),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2012, pp. 22-23.
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. 48 a,b.
A. Jefferis Turner,
New species of Lepidoptera from the Barnard collection,
Memoirs of the Queensland Museum,
Volume 12, Part 2 (1943), p. 108.
Francis Walker,
Geometrites,
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,
Part 23 (1861), p. 1001, No. 33.
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(updated 20 June 2013, 6 September 2020)