(previously known as Luxiaria perichila) EUTOEINI, ENNOMINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, from
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art
The main coloration of the adult moth of this species is pale brown, with vague dark bands and arcs of spots. There are a series of more prominent dark marks along the costa of each forewing. The hindwing margins are lightly scalloped and angled, making the hindwings kite-shaped.
The species has been found in
as well as in Australia in
Further reading :
Louis Beethoven Prout,
Treubia,
Volume 7, Part 4 (1929), p. 452, and also Plate 9, fig. 8.
Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 69.
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(written 13 August 2013)