(sometimes synonomised with Gymnoscelis picta Warren, 1901) EUPITHECIINI, LARENTIINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
The adult moths of this species have a brown pattern of broad curved transverse arcs on the forewings, and a similar paler pattern on the hindwings. The wingspan is about 2 cms.
The species occurs in the oriental tropics, including :
as well as in Australia in
Further reading
A. Jefferis Turner,
Australian Lepidoptera of the group Geometrides,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 46 (1922), pp. 234-235.
William Warren,
New Uraniidae, Epiplemidae, and Geometridae
from the Oriental and Palaearctic Regions,
Novitates Zoologicae,
Volume 8 (1901), p. 30.
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(updated 1 September 2004, 26 February 2017)