Crasilogia gressitti Holloway, 1984
 LARENTIINAE,   GEOMETRIDAE,   GEOMETROIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Crasilogia gressitti
(Photo: courtesy of Nick Monaghan, taken in Mapleton Falls, Queensland)

The adult moth has brown patterned forewings. The hindwings are paler brown, with faint patterns, and darkening toward the margins.

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

The species has been found in :

  • Queensland, and
  • New South Wales.

    Further reading :

    Jeremy Daniel Holloway,
    Lepidoptera and the Melanesian Arcs,
    in F.J. Radovsky, P.H. Raven & S.H. Sohmer (eds):
    Biogeography of the Tropical Pacific. Honolulu,
    Bishop Museum Special Publication 72 (1984) p. 162.

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    (written 12 December 2012, updated 12 November 2019, 31 March 2021)