| (one synonym : Selidosema leucodesma Turner, 1904) BOARMIINI, ENNOMINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, Kuranda, Queensland)
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| (one synonym : Selidosema leucodesma Turner, 1904) BOARMIINI, ENNOMINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, Kuranda, Queensland)
The ambiguous moth of this species is greyish-brown, with either a pattern of dark lines, or with broad blue-black bands across the wings, or even with several white patches on each wing. The wingspan is about 4 cms. Both males and females have threadlike antennae.
The species has been found in
Further reading :
Marilyn Hewish,
Moths of Victoria: Part 7,
Bark Moths and Allies - GEOMETROIDEA (A),
Entomological Society of Victoria, update 56 (2017).
Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 69.
William Warren,
New species of Drepanulidae, Thyrididae, Uraniidae, Epilemidae,
and Geometridae from Papuan region, collected by Mr. Albert S. Meek,
Novitates Zoologicae,
Volume 3 (1896), p. 301, No. 70.
 caterpillar |  butterflies |  Lepidoptera |  moths |  caterpillar |
(updated 8 August 2013, 13 August 2017)