Mnesampela comarcha Guest, 1887
 NACOPHORINI ,   ENNOMINAE ,   GEOMETRIDAE

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

Mnesampela comarcha
(Photo: copyright Cathy Young)

These Caterpillars are brown with orange dots. Their claspers are splayed out like a fish tail, and there are a pair of fleshy knobs on the second abdominal segment.

The caterpillars feed on the foliage of :

  • various Gum Trees ( Eucalyptus species, MYRTACEAE ).

    Mnesampela comarcha
    (Photo: courtesy of Jenny Holmes, Great Western, Victoria)

    The adult moths are brown, with a dark mark halfway along the inner margin of each forewing. The forewings have recurved wingtips, and the hindwings each have an angular tornus.

    The species has been found in:

  • Victoria, and
  • Tasmania.

    Further reading :

    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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    (updated 19 September 2011)