| Waved Point-moth LITHININI, ENNOMINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Ken Harris,
Morwell National Park, Victoria)
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| Waved Point-moth LITHININI, ENNOMINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Ken Harris,
Morwell National Park, Victoria)
The wings of the adult moths of this species are brown, with variable markings sometimes including a large dark spot in the middle of each forewing, and a fragmented wavy double submarginal dark line on all four wings. The forewing margins are doubly recurved, and the hindwing margins are scalloped. There is a pair of dark dots on the back of each abdominal segment. The wingspan is about 3 cms.
The species occurs in
Further reading
Marilyn Hewish,
Moths of Victoria: Part 7,
Bark Moths and Allies - GEOMETROIDEA (D),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2016, pp. 10-11.
Edward Meyrick,
Revision of Australian Lepidoptera V,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 2, Volume 62, Part 4 (1892), p. 646, No. 74.
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(written 29 January 2017, updated 10 August 2018, 28 October 2020)