Cyphura geminia (Cramer, 1777) (formerly known as Phalaena geminia) URANIINAE,   URANIIDAE,   GEOMETROIDEA

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

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

The adult moths of this species are white, with a brown line along the costa of, and two brown lines across, each forewing. There is one brown line across each hindwing, and a brown line along each margin of all four wings. There is also a brown line down the middle of the back of the abdomen. The margins of the hindwings each have a stumpy tail with two black spots.

drawing by Pieter Cramer, listed as Phalaena geminia,
Uitlandsche kapellen voorkomende in de drie waereld-deelen,
Amsterdam Baalde, vol. 2 (1777), Plate CXXXIII, fig. C,
Image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.

The species has been found in :

Queensland.

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Further reading :

Pieter Cramer,
Papillons Exotique,
Uitlandsche kapellen voorkomende in de drie waereld-deelen,
Amsterdam Baalde, Volume 2 (1777), pp. 57-58, and also Plate 133, fig. C.

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(written 3 April 2015, updated 23 January 2020)