Scopula prosoeca (Turner, 1908) (previously known as Leptomeris prosoeca) STERRHINAE,   GEOMETRIDAE,   GEOMETROIDEA

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

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

This adult moth is pale brown with a dark dot near the middle of each wing and some other markings, including more dark dots, and brown zigzag lines on 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

New South Wales.

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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), pp. 660-661, No. 43.

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(written 11 January 2013, updated 11 December 2018)