| (erroneously known as Hypomecis thermea) Clouded Bark Moth BOARMIINI, ENNOMINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
drawing by Harriet Morgan and Helena Forde, listed as Geometra camelipilo,
Australian Lepidoptera and their transformations, Plate XXI: top left,
courtesy of the Australian Museum
This Caterpillar is reddish-grey with a pale underside. The caterpillar is smooth, and has an angular head and a blunt horn on the last segment. The caterpillar has only one pair of prolegs on the penultimate abdominal segment, and claspers on the last segment, so walks in a looper fashion. The caterpillar has been found feeding on
The pupa is brown.
This adult moth is blotchy brown, often with black, brown, and white wiggly lines and spots on each wing. The undersides are plain brown with one dark spot near the middle of each wing. Both sexes have feathery antennae. The wingspan is about 4 cms.
The species has been found in
The genus Selidosema is inappropriate for this species and for Selidosema agoraea, but their placement in a new genus is controversial.
Further reading :
Marilyn Hewish,
Moths of Victoria: Part 7,
Bark Moths and Allies - GEOMETROIDEA (D),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2016, pp. 22-23.
Edward Meyrick,
Revision of Australian Lepidoptera V,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 2, Volume 6, Part 4 (1892), p. 600, No. 27.
Alexander Walker Scott, edited and revised by Arthur Sidney Olliff and Helena Forde
Australian Lepidoptera and their transformations,
with illustrations drawn from the life by his daughters, Harriet Morgan and Helena Forde,
Australian Museum,
Vol. 2 (1893), p. 33 (61), and also
Plate 21, top left.
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(written 3 July 2018, updated 26 August 2019)