Idiodes idiocrossa (Turner, 1947)
(previously known as Casbia idiocrossa)
LITHININI,   ENNOMINAE,   GEOMETRIDAE,   GEOMETROIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley


(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The adult moth of this species has a particular pattern of jagged lines between fascias, but variable colours for those fascias. The wings have scalloped edges. The wingspan is about 3 cms.


Norfolk Island 1976

The species has been found in

  • Norfolk Island, and
  • Western Australia.


    Further reading :

    A. Jefferis Turner,
    New Australian species of Boarmiadae (Lepidoptera),
    Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland,
    Volume 58 (1947), p. 94, No. 55.


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    (written 23 August 2004, updated 30 March 2017, 8 March 2020)