(one synonym : Epipristis australis Goldfinch, 1929) GEOMETRINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of Olga Schmidt, Queensland Museum,
listed as Epipristis australis)
The adult moths of this species are grey with a black scalloped submarginal line on each wing. The wingspan is about 3 cms.
The species is found in
Further reading :
Olga Schmidt,
An annotated and illustrated list of the primary type specimens of geometrid moths
deposited in the Queensland Museum (Australia, Brisbane),
Spixiana,
Volume 5, Part 1 (2012), pp. 79-100, Figs. 26 a,b.
Edward Meyrick,
Revision of Australian Lepidoptera II,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 2, Volume 2, Part 4 (1888), p. 916, No. 95.
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(wttien 15 June 2015)