Scopula loxographa (Turner, 1941)
(formerly known as Eois trissomita)
STERRHINAE,   GEOMETRIDAE,   GEOMETROIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Scopula loxographa
male
(Photo: courtesy of Olga Schmidt, Queensland Museum)

The adult moths of this species are brown with bold dark stripes across the wings. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.

Scopula loxographa
male, underside
(Photo: courtesy of Olga Schmidt, Queensland Museum)

The species is found in

  • Queensland.


    Further Reading

    Olga Schmidt,
    An annotated and illustrated list of the primary type specimens of geometrid moths deposited in the Queensland Museum (Australia, Brisbane),
    Spixiana,
    Volume 5, Part 1 (2012), pp. 79-100, Figs. 62 a,b.

    A. Jefferis Turner,
    New species of Lepidoptera from the Barnard collection,
    Memoirs of the Queensland Museum,
    Volume 12, Part 1 (1941), p. 44.


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    (written 20 June 2015)