Idaea dasypus (Turner, 1908) (previously known as Xenocentris dasypus) STERRHINAE,   GEOMETRIDAE,   GEOMETROIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)

The adult moths of this species are reddish brown, with vague dark zigzag lines across each wing. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

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

The species has been found in :

Queensland.

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Further reading :

A. Jefferis Turner,
Revision of Australian Lepidoptera: IV,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 32 (1908), p. 640, No. 2.

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(written 10 January 2013, updated 10 September 2022)