Long-nosed Epidesmia (one synonym : Hemagalma inspersa Felder and Rogenhofer, 1875) OENOCHROMINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Cathy Byrne & Stella Crossley |
(Photo: copyright Cathy Byrne)
The adult moths are brown with a curved dark submarginal line outlining a darker marginal area on each forewing. The moths rest with the hindwings covered by the forewings, like a minature Concord aircraft. The moths keep the unusually long labial palps projected in front of the head like a beak. The moths have a wingspan of about 3.5 cms.
The eggs are bullet shaped, with 12 ridges around each one running from base to the apex.
The species has been found in :
Further reading :
Achille Guenée,
in Boisduval & Guenée: Uranides et Phalénites,
Histoire naturelle des insectes; spécies général des lépidoptères,
Volume 9, Part 10 (1857), p. 128, No. 1125.
Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria: Part 4,
Emeralds and Allies - GEOMETROIDEA (B),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2012, pp. 18-19.
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(updated 31 March 2011, 21 October 2013, 3 May 2014, 18 December 2020)