Niceteria macrocosma (Lower, 1899)
(one synonym is: Satraparchis macrocosma)
 NACOPHORINI ,   ENNOMINAE ,   GEOMETRIDAE

Don Herbison-Evans ( donherbisonevans@yahoo.com )
&
Stella Crossley


(Photo from: Moths of Australia, courtesu of Ian F.B. Common)

These Caterpillars are green with an indistinct yellow line along each side. They feed on the leaves of various Gum Trees ( MYRTACEAE ) including :

  • Sydney Red Gum ( Angophora costata ).


    The adult moths have brown and white forewings, and yellow hindwings which have a wide black margin. The moths have a wingspan of about 4 cms.


    underside
    (Photo: courtesy of Donald Hobern, Blackheath)

    Its range is from

  • Queensland,
  • New South Wales,
  • Victoria, to
  • Tasmania, and
  • South Australia.

    It has an annual lifecycle and the adults fly in late summer and autumn.

    Further reading :

    Ian F.B. Common,
    Moths of Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1990, p. 366.

    Catherine J. Young,
    Characterisation of the Australian Nacophorini and a Phylogeny for the Geometridae from Molecular and Morphological Data, Ph.D. thesis, University of Tasmania, 2003.

    Paul Zborowski and Ted Edwards,
    A Guide to Australian Moths, CSIRO Publishing, 2007, p. 144.

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    (updated 8 November 2010)