(previously known as : Asthena xylocyma) ASTHENINI, LARENTIINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Cathy Byrne & Stella Crossley |
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The caterpillars of this species are green with a white line along each side.
The pupa is dark brown.
The adult moth is brown with a speckled pattern of darker brown, sometimes with a dark patch in the middle of each forewing hind-margin. The wingspan is about 2 cms.
The eggs are pale green, oval, and covered in microscopic bumps.
The species has been found in
Further reading :
Edward Meyrick,
Revision of Australian Lepidoptera V,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 2, Volume 5, Part 4 (1890), p. 814, No. 23.
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(updated 19 January 2013, 19 March 2021)