Pelagodes veraria (Guenée, 1858)
(previously known as: Thalassodes veraria)
 GEOMETRINAE ,   GEOMETRIDAE

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

Pelagodes veraria
(Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville)

The caterpillars of this species are sometimes a pest on seedlings such as:

  • Mango ( Mangifera indica, ANACARDIACEAE ).

    The adult moths are green with two faint pale zigzag lines across each wing, and a yellow costa to each forewing. The hindwings each have an angular margin. The moths have a wingspan of about 3 cms.

    The species occurs across southern Asia and the Pacific, including :

  • Fiji,
  • India,
  • Java,
  • Malaysia,
  • New Guinea,
    and in Australia in:
  • Queensland, and
  • Northern Territory.

    Further reading:

    Edward Meyrick,
    On some Lepidoptera from New Guinea, Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, Volume 37, Number 4 (1889), pp. 455-522

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    (updated 20 July 2010)