(formerly known as Boarmia conspersa) BOARMIINI, ENNOMINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of Olga Schmidt, Queensland Museum,
listed as Boarmia conspersa)
The adult moths of this species have streaky brown wings. The wingspan is about 3 cms.
The species has been found in:
The current genus is inappropriate for this species, and it needs to be reclassified.
Further Reading
Olga Schmidt,
An annotated and illustrated list
of the primary type specimens of geometrid moths
deposited in the Queensland Museum (Australia, Brisbane),
Spixiana,
Volume 5, Part 1 (2012), pp. 79-100, Figs. 5 a,b.
A. Jefferis Turner,
New Australian species of Boarmiadae (Lepidoptera),
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland,
Volume 58 (1947), pp. 86-87, No. 37.
caterpillar | butterflies | Lepidoptera | moths | caterpillar |
(written 12 June 2015)