| Dark-tipped Bark Moth BOARMIINI, ENNOMINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
female
(Photo: courtesy of Marilyn Hewish,
Moths of Victoria: Part 7)
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| Dark-tipped Bark Moth BOARMIINI, ENNOMINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
female
(Photo: courtesy of Marilyn Hewish,
Moths of Victoria: Part 7)
The adult moth of this species is pale brown, with fragmented dark brown wavy lines across the wings. It has a blurry dark blotch on each forewing extending from near the middle to the margin. Like most geometrids, the moth rests with wings outspread. The wingspan is about 3 cms.
The species occurs in:
Further reading :
Gilbert Macarthur Goldfinch,
Notes on Australian Boarmiidae and Oenochromidae (Lepidoptera) with descriptions of new species,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 69 (1944), p. 190.
Marilyn Hewish,
Moths of Victoria: Part 7,
Bark Moths and Allies - GEOMETROIDEA (D),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2016, pp. 30-31.
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(updated 17 September 2013, 9 July 2018, 14 May 2021)