Neritodes verrucata Guenée, 1857 Dotted Geometrid ENNOMINAE,   GEOMETRIDAE,   GEOMETROIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of JohnBundock, Namadgi National Park, Australian Capital Territory)

The adult moth of this species has brown forewings each with a faint submarginal arc of dark dots, and a faint small dark circle near the base. The hindwings are paler and also each have a faint submarginal arc of dark dots. The males and females both have threadlike antennae. The wingspan is about 3 cms.

male, drawing by Achille Guenée, Uranides et Phalénites,
Histoire Naturelle des Insectes; Spécies Général des Lépidoptères,
Volume 9, Part 10 (1857), Plate 22, fig. 8,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.

The species has been found in Australia in

Western Australia.

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

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Further reading

Achille Guenée,
Uranides et Phalénites,
in Boisduval & Guenée: Histoire Naturelle des Insectes; Spécies Général des Lépidoptères,
Volume 9, Part 10 (1857), p. 119, No. 1112, and also Plate 22, fig. 8.

Marilyn Hewish,
Moths of Victoria: Part 7,
Bark Moths and Allies - GEOMETROIDEA (D),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2016, pp. 34-35.

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(updated 15 February 2010, 24 December 2018, 10 May 2021)