Capusa leptoneura (Turner, 1926) (formerly known as Chlenias leptoneura) DIPTYCHINI,   ENNOMINAE,   GEOMETRIDAE,   GEOMETROIDEA

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

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

The adult moth of this species has grey forewings each with a dark mark halfway along the hind-margin. The hindwings are off-white, shading to grey at the the wing-tips. The head and thorax are black. The wingspan is about 4 cms.

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

Unusually for Geometrids, it creases and folds its wings, like a collapsed tent, along its back when at rest.

The species has been found in:

Western Australia.

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A. Jefferis Turner,
Studies in Australian Lepidoptera,
Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 50 (1926), p. 128.

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(written 15 September 2022)