Amelora belemnophora Turner, 1947 Ribbon-Cape-moth DIPTYCHINI,   ENNOMINAE,   GEOMETRIDAE,   GEOMETROIDEA

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

(Photo: copyright Cathy Byrne)

These Caterpillars are brown with a black head that has white dots. It only has one pair of prolegs in addition to the claspers, so it moves in a looper fashion. It rests on the prolegs and claspers looking like a twig.

female
(Photo: courtesy of Marilyn Hewish, Moths of Victoria: Part 5)

The adult moths are brown with striking dark broad zig-zag bands across each forewing. The hindwings are pale brown, each with a fuzzy dark spot near the middle. The wingspan is about 3 cms.

male
(Photo: copyright of Brett and Marie Smith, at Ellura Sanctuary, South Australia)

The moths are inclined to rest with their wings folded over the back like a tent, in common with most of the moths in NACOPHORINI.

eggs magnified
(Photo: copyright Cathy Byrne)

The eggs are laid in a row. They are smooth and squarish-oval, and each has a broad dimple. Their colour is white with red spots.

male
(Photo: courtesy of Marilyn Hewish, Moths of Victoria: Part 5)

The species has been found in

Western Australia.

male underside
(Photo: copyright of Brett and Marie Smith, at Ellura Sanctuary, South Australia)

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Further reading :

Marilyn Hewish,
Moths of Victoria: Part 5,
Satin Moths and Allies - GEOMETROIDEA (A),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2014, pp. 10-11.

A. Jefferis Turner,
New Australian species of Boarmiadae (Lepidoptera),
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland,
Volume 58 (1947), p. 107, No. 88.

Catherine J. Young,
Characterisation of the Australian Nacophorini and a Phylogeny for the Geometridae from Molecular and Morphological Data,
Ph.D. thesis, University of Tasmania, 2003.

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