| (misidentified as Anisodes pallida Turner 1908) STERRHINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Diana Davey,
Wooli, New South Wales)
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| (misidentified as Anisodes pallida Turner 1908) STERRHINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Diana Davey,
Wooli, New South Wales)
The caterpillar of this species is brown, with a pale patch on each side at each segment joint. The caterpillar has been found feeding on
The caterpillar grows to a length of about 3 cms. It pupates in a naked green and brown pupa, which has a length of about 1.5 cms.
The pupa is attached to a foodplant leaf by by cremaster and girdle. The adult moth can emerge after about two weeks in early summer.
The adult moths are brown with several arcs of dark dots on each wing. The hindwings each have a small dark irregular circle near the middle. The wingspan is about 2.5 cms.
The species has been found in
as well as in Australia in
Further reading
Louis Beethoven Prout,
New Geometridae,
Novitates Zoologicae,
Volume 27 (1920), p. 278, No. 31.
A. Jefferis Turner,
Revision of Australian Lepidoptera IV,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 32 (1908), p. 691. No. 93.
 caterpillar |  butterflies |  Lepidoptera |  moths |  caterpillar |
(written 6 December 2024, updated 7 December 2024)