ASTHENINI, LARENTIINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
male
(Photo: courtesy of Olga Schmidt, Queensland Museum)
The adult moth of this species is pale brownish green with a blurred dark spot near the middle of each forewing. The wingspan is about 2 cms.
The species is found in Australia in:
Further reading:
Olga Schmidt,
An annotated and illustrated list of the primary type specimens of geometrid moths
deposited in the Queensland Museum (Australia, Brisbane),
Spixiana,
Volume 5, Part 1 (2012), pp. 79-100, Figs. 41 a,b.
A. Jefferis Turner,
Fragmenta Lepidopterologica,
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland,
Volume 53 (1942), p. 62.
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(written 17 June 2015)