Microdes asystata Turner, 1922 EUPITHECIINI,   LARENTIINAE,   GEOMETRIDAE,   GEOMETROIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Katarina Christenson, Goorooyarroo, Australian Capital Territory)

The adult moths of this species have a variable complex grey or brown pattern on each forewing, and a muted grey-brown pattern on each hindwing. The moths have a wingspan of about 2 cms.

(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The species has been found in

Australian Capital Territory.

underside
(Photo: courtesy of John Bromilow, Ainslie, Australian Capital Territory)

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Further reading:

A. Jefferis Turner,
Australian Lepidoptera of the group Geometrites,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 46 (1922), p. 241.

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(written 9 October 2020, updated 8 November 2020, 20 December 2021)