Sauris plumipes Dugdale, 1980 TRICHOPTERYGINI,   LARENTIINAE,   GEOMETRIDAE,   GEOMETROIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, Kuranda, Queensland)

The adult moth of this species has forewings with a complex pattern of shades of grey or brown. The hindwings are plain, and only about half the size of the forewings.

(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 :

J. S. Dugdale,
Australian Trichopterygini (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) With Descriptions of Eight New Taxa,
Australian Journal of Zoology, Volume 28, Number 2 (1980), pp. 301-340.

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