| (one synonym : Tephrosia gratularia, Walker, 1860) Serrated Bark Moth BOARMIINI, ENNOMINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
David Akers, Won Wron, Victoria)
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| (one synonym : Tephrosia gratularia, Walker, 1860) Serrated Bark Moth BOARMIINI, ENNOMINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
David Akers, Won Wron, Victoria)
The caterpillars of this species are green with thin white strpes, a brown head, and several yellow spots on each segment.
The caterpillars have the same colours and segmented structure as the stems of their foodplant, so are very well camouflaged. They are very similar to the caterpillars of Munychryia senicula which feed on the same foodplant, and so are similarly camouflaged.
The pupa is dark brown, with a length of about 1 cm.
The adult moths have grey wings with brownish patches, each wing with various wiggly lines, including a black-edged white zigzag submarginal line and chequered fringes. The abdomen has alternating light and dark bands. The wingspan is about 3 cms.
The species has been found in:
This species is sometimes placed in the genus Hypomecis, but the genus of this species is under review, and so here we consider the species to be currently unplaced.
Further reading :
Achille Guenée,
Uranides et Phalénites,
in Boisduval & Guenée:
Histoire naturelle des insectes; spécies général des lépidoptères,
Volume 9, Part 9 (1857), p. 243, No. 363.
Marilyn Hewish,
Moths of Victoria: Part 7,
Bark Moths and Allies - GEOMETROIDEA (D),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2016, pp. 26-27.
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(updated 9 July 2010, 16 May 2023)