(erroneously known as : Xiridava rufinigra) EUPITHECIINI, LARENTIINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of the
BIO Photography Group, Biodiversity Institute of Ontario)
The adult moths of this species are pale brown with a broad irregular brown band along the costa of each forewing, and a broad brown mark at the tornus of each hindwing. The wingspan is about 2 cms.
Various subspecies are found in
and also in Australia in
Further reading:
Charles Swinhoe,
On New Species of Indian Lepidoptera,
Annals and Magazine of Natural History,
6th Series, Part 16 (1895), pp. 296-297.
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(updated 7 September 2004, 18 October 2013, 20 March 2021)