Nycterephes anthracica (Lower, 1905) (formerly known as Amelora anthracica) DIPTYCHINI,   ENNOMINAE,   GEOMETRIDAE,   GEOMETROIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Helen Wakefield, Bullsbrook, Western Australia)

The adult moth has dark grey forewings with some black zigzag transverse lines, and black veins. Each hindwing is silver shading to black along the margin, with a dark zizgzag submarginal line, and a dark mark near the middle. The wingspan is about 3 cms.

(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The species occurs in:

Western Australia.

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Further reading :

Oswald B. Lower,
Descriptions of new Australian Lepidoptera, with synonymic notes. No. XXIII,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 29 (1905), pp. 177-178.

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(written 24 April 2022)