Dinophalus incongrua (Walker, 1857) (previously known as Agrotis incongrua) Blackened Moth OENOCHROMINAE,   GEOMETRIDAE GEOMETROIDEA,

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

(Photo: courtesy of John Lenagan, Anglesea, Victoria)

The adult moths of this species have dark grey forewings each with several faint jagged transverse lines. Each hindwing is off-white with a dark band along most of the margin containing a pale undulating submarginal line. The wingspan is about 3 cms.

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

Th species has been found in

Victoria.

underside
(Photo: courtesy of Peter Crowcroft, Anglesea, Victoria)

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Further reading :

Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria: Part 4,
Emeralds and Allies - GEOMETROIDEA (B),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2013, pp. 8-9.

Francis Walker,
Noctuidae,
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,
Part 10 (1856), p. 353, No. 109.

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(written 23 February 2017, 18 April 2026)