Oenochroma orthodesma (Lower, 1894)
Barred Wine Moth
 (one synonym : Oenochroma erubescens Prout, 1910)
OENOCHROMINAE,   GEOMETRIDAE,   GEOMETROIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Oenochroma orthodesma
(Photo: courtesy of Peter Marriott, Moths of Victoria: Part 4)

The adult moths of this species are brown with a variable dark-edged yellow line from the wingtip to the middle of the hind margin on each forewing, and across the middle of each hindwing. The undersides are brown, with a big purple spot at the tornus of each forewing. The forewing wingtips are slightly recurved. The wingspan is about 5 cms.

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

The species has been found in

  • Queensland,
  • New South Wales,
  • Victoria, and
  • South Australia.

    Oenochroma orthodesma
    showing underside
    (Photo: courtesy of Peter Marriott, Moths of Victoria: Part 4)

    Further reading :

    Oswald B. Lower,
    New Australian Heterocera,
    Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
    Volume 18 (1894), p. 84.

    Peter Marriott,
    Moths of Victoria: Part 4,
    Emeralds and Allies - GEOMETROIDEA (B)    ,
    Entomological Society of Victoria, 2012, pp. 10-11.

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    (written 5 May 2014, updated 21 December 2020)