Stitched Delicate (previously known as Asthena balioloma) ASTHENINI, LARENTIINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria: Part 3)
The adult moth of this species is pale green with a series of equispaced wavy darker lines on every wing, and a dark dot near the middle of each forewing. The wings have a series of dark dashes around the edges. The wingspan is about 2 cms. The green fades to brown in museum specimens.
The species has been found in
Further reading:
Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria: Part 3,
Waves & Carpets - GEOMETROIDEA (C),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2011, pp. 32-33.
A. Jefferis Turner,
Revision of Australian Lepidoptera III,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 31, Part 4 (1906), p. 697.
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(written 13 September 2013, updated 10 October 2020)