(formerly known as Iodis bipunctifera) GEOMETRINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: Don Herbison-Evans, Revesby, New South Wales)
This Caterpillar is greenish-brown, and has a pair of stubby red horns on the first abdominal segment. It was caught on :
It grew to a length of about 2 cm.
The adult moth of this species is green with two diagonal white lines across each forewing, and one across each hindwing. There is also a dark spot at the tornus of each hindwing. The wingspan is about 2 cms.
This species has been found in Australia in
Further reading :
Francis Walker,
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Heterocera,
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,
Part 23 (1861), p. 546, No. 21.
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(written 23 September 2018, updated 11 October 2020)