| (one synonym : Chogada anestiaria Swinhoe, 1915) BOARMIINI, ENNOMINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of the
Macleay Collection, Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney)
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| (one synonym : Chogada anestiaria Swinhoe, 1915) BOARMIINI, ENNOMINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of the
Macleay Collection, Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney)
The eggs of this species are green, and laid in an irregular array near the tip of the leaf of a foodplant.
The Caterpillar is a uniformly brown looper, with a smooth but wrinkled skin, and it has only two set of prolegs. Ours was found feeding on :
near Redfern Station in Sydney, and grew to about 4 cms.
It pupated in the soil.
The adult moth emerged in only nine days, and was brownish-grey with wavy lines, and had a wingspan of about 4 cms.
The species has been found as several subspecies in south-east Asia in:
as well as in Australia in
Further reading :
Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 61.
Colonel C. Swinhoe,
New Species of Indo-Malayan Lepidoptera,
Annals and magazine of natural history,
Series 8, Volume 16, Number 93 (1915), p. 184.
Francis Walker,
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Heterocera - Geometrites (continued),
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects
in the Collection of the British Museum,
5th Series, Part 26 (1863), pp. 1539-1540.
Paul Zborowski and Ted Edwards,
A Guide to Australian Moths,
CSIRO Publishing, 2007, p. 145.
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(updated 8 November 2010, 31 January 2015, 2 January 2021)