Loweria philocosma (Lower, 1915) (formerly known as Angelia philocosma) DIPTYCHINI,   ENNOMINAE,   GEOMETRIDAE,   GEOMETROIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Jesse & Peter Koch, Lake Hart, South Australia)

The adult moths have pale brown forewings, each crossed two broad jagged dark brown lines. The hindwings are pale brown, each with a faint dark spot in the middle, and a faint dark curved submarginal line. The wingspan is about 2.7 cms.

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

The species has been found in:

South Australia.

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Further reading :

Oswald B. Lower,
The Lepidoptera of Broken Hill, New South Wales, Pt I,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 39 (1915), pp. 381-382, No. 209.

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(written 10 May 2021)