(previously known as Eupithecia recensitaria) EUPITHECIINI, LARENTIINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
The adult moths of this species have a brown pattern on the wings. The hindwings are only about half the size of the forewings. The wingspan is about 1 cm.
The species occurs in the oriental tropics, including :
as well as in Australia in
Further reading:
Francis Walker,
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Heterocera,
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,
Part 24 (1862), p. 1244.
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(updated 2 September 2004, 13 October 2013)