(previously known as Idiodes gerasphora) BAPTINI, ENNOMINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, from
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art
The wings of the adult moth of this species are brown, with a variable pattern of blotches, lines, and spots each wing. The forewings have slightly recurved wingtips. The wingspan is about 3 cms.
The species has been found in Australia in:
Further reading :
Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 63.
A. Jefferis Turner,
New Australian species of Boarmiadae (Lepidoptera),
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland,
Volume 58 (1947), p. 100, No. 72.
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(created 10 April 2012, updated 11 April 2012)