![]() | Pink Heath Moth (one synonym : Terpna lepterythra Turner, 1942) OENOCHROMINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Steven Williams,
Eppalock, Victoria)
The adult moths of this species have pinkish-brown wings, each having a variable pale dark-edged broad submarginal band, and a black mark near the centre of each wing. The wingspan is about 2.5 cms.
The species occurs in
Further reading :
Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria: Part 4,
Emeralds and Allies - GEOMETROIDEA (B),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2012, pp. 20-21.
A. Jefferis Turner,
Revision of Australian Oenochromidae (Lepidoptera) III,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 55 (1930), p. 210, No. 193.
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(updated 30 March 2013, 26 November 2024)