Both sexes of adult moth have uniformly brown forewings, and hindwings that are brown at the margin fading to white at the base. Each wing has a dark spot in the middle of it. The wingspan is about 5.3 cms. These specimens were caught in South Australia.

female
(Photo: copyright Cathy Young)

Further reading :

N. McFarland,
Portraits of South Australian Geometrid Moths, Allen Press: Lawrence, Kansas (1988).

Peter B. McQuillan, Catherine J. Young, and A.M.M. Richardson, A revision of the Australian moth genus Paralaea Guest (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Ennominae), Invertebrate Taxonomy, Volume 15, part 3 (2001), pp. 277-317.

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.

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