Larophylla amimeta

Larophylla amimeta Turner, 1917
DIPTYCHINI, ENNOMINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA

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

Larophylla amimeta
(Photo: courtesy of Carol & Trevor Deane, Dorrigo, New South Wales)

The adult moth have brown forewings with three large coloured patches on the costa. The patch colours are quite variable.

another colour form
(Photo: courtesy of Carol & Trevor Deane, Dorrigo, New South Wales)

The hindwings are orange, each with a black spot near the middle. The moths are inclined to hold their wings closed tent-like over the body.

yet another colour form
(Photo: courtesy of Carol & Trevor Deane, Dorrigo, New South Wales)

The forewings each have recurved wingtips, and have a prominent cusp at the middle of the hind-margin. The moths have a wingspan of about 4 cms.

(Specimen: courtesy of the Macleay Collection, Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney)

The species has been found in

Queensland,

New South Wales, and

Victoria, and

Tasmania.

(Photo: courtesy of Moths of Victoria: Part 5)

Further reading :
Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1990, p. 366.
Marilyn Hewish,
Moths of Victoria: Part 5,
Satin Moths and Allies - GEOMETROIDEA (A),
Entomological Society of Victoria, Update 58 (22 September 2017).
Cathy Byrne,
Characterisation of the Australian Nacophorini and a Phylogeny for the Geometridae from Molecular and Morphological Data,
Ph.D. thesis, University of Tasmania, 2003.
A. Jefferis Turner,
Revision of the Australian Lepidoptera. VI,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 42 (1917), pp. 389-390, No. 128.

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(updated 4 March 2005, 21 April 2026)