| (previously known as Cidaria decipiens) LARENTIINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Donald Hobern, Blackheath, New South Wales)
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| (previously known as Cidaria decipiens) LARENTIINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Donald Hobern, Blackheath, New South Wales)
The caterpillars of this species are thought to feed on
The adult moth has brown wings, with broad light and dark zigzag bands across each forewing. The hindwings are a uniform pale brown. The wingspan is about 2 cms.
The species has been found in:
Further reading:
Arthur G. Butler,
Descriptions of 21 new genera and 103 new species of
Lepidoptera Heterocera from the Australian region,
Transactions of the Entomological Society of London,
1886, Part 4, pp. 438-439, No. 98.
Olga Schmidt,
A revision of the genus Chaetolopha Warren (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Larentiinae)
with a description of Parachaetolopha, gen. nov.,
Invertebrate Systematics,
Volume 16 (2002), pp. 703-733.
 caterpillar |  butterflies |  Lepidoptera |  moths |  caterpillar |
(updated 11 July 2011)