(previously known as Iodis iosticta) GEOMETRINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson,
Kuranda, Queensland)
The adult moths have green wings, with white dots around the wing edges and along two zig-zag lines across each forewing, and along one across each hindwing. There is one larger white spot on the hind margin of each forewing. The females have thread-like antennae. The males have feathery antennae.
This species has been found in
Further reading :
Peter Hendry,
At the Light Trap,
Butterflies and Other Invertebrates Club
Newsletter, Issue 48 (March 2008), pp. 9-11.
Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria: Part 4, Updates
Emeralds and Allies - GEOMETROIDEA (B),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2012.
Edward Meyrick,
Revision of Australian Lepidoptera II,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 2, Volume 2, Part 4 (1888), pp. 893-894, No. 72.
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(updated 2 April 2010, 15 August 2018, 25 April 2021)