Fine-veined Geometrid DIPTYCHINI, ENNOMINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
oops: abdomen missing!
(Photo: courtesy of Marilyn Hewish,
Moths of Victoria: Part 5)
These adult moths have brown forewings, each with several fine jagged dark lines and pale lines across each one. The hindwings are plain brown. The moths have a wingspan of about 3 cms.
The species has been found in Australia in
Further reading:
Oswald B. Lower,
New Australian Lepidoptera,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 22 (1897), pp. 265-266.
Marilyn Hewish,
Moths of Victoria: Part 5,
Satin Moths and Allies - GEOMETROIDEA (A),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2014, pp. 20-21.
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(written 19 December 2015, updated 8 September 2021)