Thallogama pansticta Turner, 1947
 Flecked Bark Moth
BOARMIINI,   ENNOMINAE,   GEOMETRIDAE,   GEOMETROIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Thallogama pansticta
female
(Photo: courtesy of Marilyn Hewish, Moths of Victoria: Part 7)

The adult moths of this species are off-white with a pattern of brown markings on the wings. The wingspan is about 3 cms.

Thallogama pansticta
male

(Photo: courtesy of Olga Schmidt, Queensland Museum, listed as Boarmia pansticta)

The species has been found in:

  • New South Wales,
  • Australian Capital Territory, and
  • Victoria.

    Thallogama pansticta
    underside
    (Photo: courtesy of Olga Schmidt, Queensland Museum, listed as Boarmia pansticta)

    Further reading :

    Marilyn Hewish,
    Moths of Victoria: Part 7,
    Bark Moths and Allies - GEOMETROIDEA (D)    ,
    Entomological Society of Victoria, 2016, pp. 22-23.

    Olga Schmidt,
    An annotated and illustrated list of the primary type specimens of geometrid moths deposited in the Queensland Museum (Australia, Brisbane),
    Spixiana,
    Volume 5, Part 1 (2012), pp. 79-100, Figs. 10 a,b.

    A. Jefferis Turner,
    New Australian species of Boarmiadae (Lepidoptera),
    Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland,
    Volume 58 (1947), pp. 80-81, No. 23.

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    (written 22 May 2015, updated 14 May 2023)