Chloroclystis guttifera Turner, 1904 LARENTIINAE,   GEOMETRIDAE,   GEOMETROIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Nicholas Fisher, Tamborine Mountain, Queensland)

The adults of this species have brown wings, crossed by dark zigzag lines outlined in off-white. The darkness of parts of the zigzag lines is variable. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

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

The species is found in

Queensland.

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Further reading:

A. Jefferis Turner,
Revision of Australian Lepidoptera. Family Geometridae,
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria,
Volume 16 (1904), p. 233, No. 18.

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(written 10 November 2019, updated 19 December 2019)