(one synonym : Nemoria pisina Warren, 1899) GEOMETRINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Simon Ong, Kununurra, Western Australia)
The adult moth of this species is green with two diagonal white lines across each forewing, and one across each hindwing. The wingspan is about 2 cms.
This species has been found in Australia in
Further reading :
Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria: Part 4, Updates
Emeralds and Allies - GEOMETROIDEA (B),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2012.
Edward Meyrick,
On some Lepidoptera from New Guinea,
Transactions of the Entomological Society of London,
1889, p. 492, No. 104.
William Warren,
New species and genera of the families Drepanulidae, Thyrididae, Uraniidae,
Epiplemidae and Geometridae from the Old-World Regions,
Novitates Zoologicae,
Volume 6 (1899), p. 26, No. 62.
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(written 23 September 2018, updated 6 November 2020)