Psilosticha oresitropha Turner, 1947 BOARMIINI,   ENNOMINAE,   GEOMETRIDAE,   GEOMETROIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The adult moths have pale fawn wings with some dark spots, and a vague pattern of dark and light lines. The wings have scalloped margins. The moths normally rest with wings flat with all four wings exposed. The wingspan is about 3 cms.

The species occurs in Australia in:

New South Wales.

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Further reading :

A. Jefferis Turner,
New Australian species of Boarmiadae (Lepidoptera),
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland,
Volume 58 (1947), pp. 74-75, No. 9.

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(written 21 February 2018)