Mnesampela athertonensis McQuillan, 1985 Atherton Gum Moth DIPTYCHINI,   ENNOMINAE,   GEOMETRIDAE,   GEOMETROIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Bart Hacobian, Millaa Millaa, Queensland)

The adult moths have greyish-brown wings, each with a straight pale-edged dark submarginal line. and irregularly scalloped margins. The moths repose with the forewings held covering the hindwings.

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

The species is found in the highland plains of

Queensland.

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Further reading :

Peter B. McQuillan,
A taxonomic revision of the Australian autumn gum moth genus Mnesampela Guest (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Ennominae),
Entomologica Scandinavica,
Volume 16 (1985) p. 187.

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(written 16 June 2018)