Dry-country Wave (previously known as Leptomeris hypocallista) STERRHINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
male
(Photo: courtesy of Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria: Part 4)
This adult moth is brown. Each wing is crossed by vague dark zig-zag bands. The hindwings are sometimes yellower than the forewings. The wingspan is about 2 cms.
The species has been found in:
Further reading:
Oswald B. Lower,
Descriptions of new Australian Lepidoptera,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 25 (1900), p. 405.
Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria: Part 3,
Waves & Carpets - GEOMETROIDEA (C),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2011, pp. 8-9.
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(written 23 February 2014)