Neogyne Warren, 1898
 BOARMIINI,   ENNOMINAE,   GEOMETRIDAE,   GEOMETROIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley


a Neogyne species
Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, from
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art

The adult moths of this genus has grey blotchy wings. In its unusual natural posture for this genus, they sit on a stick, and roll the wings around the stick.


another Neogyne species
(Photo: courtesy of Geoff Byrne, Rowles Lagoon, Western Australia)

Species in this genus have been found in

  • Western Australia,
  • Queensland, and
  • New South Wales.


    front view
    (Photo: courtesy of Geoff Byrne, Rowles Lagoon, Western Australia)

    Further reading :

    Buck Richardson,
    Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
    LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 68.

    William Warren,
    New species and genera of the families Thyrididae, Uraniidae, Epiplemidae, and Geometridae from the Old-World Regions,
    Novitates Zoologicae,
    Volume 5 (1898), p. 256.

    Paul Zborowski and Ted Edwards,
    A Guide to Australian Moths, CSIRO Publishing, 2007, p. 140.

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    (updated 20 December 2010, 15 November 2019)