URANIIDAE of Australia Swallowtail Moths GEOMETROIDEA

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

URANIIDAE caterpillars

URANIIDAE pupae

URANIIDAE moths

URANIIDAE undersides

Many of the URANIIDAE fly in daylight hours, and the family was put in its own separate superfamily URANIOIDEA. More recent DNA studies show an affiliation with moths in GEOMETRIDAE which typically fly at night. So some taxonomists place the URANIIDAE in the superfamily GEOMETROIDEA, but here we adhere to the older system.

The Australian representatives of URANIIDAE include :

Acropteris nanula
Acropteris teriadata
Acropteris species

Alcides metaurus : Zodiac moth

Balantiucha leucocephala
Balantiucha mutans

Balantiucha seminigra
Balantiucha stolida

Epiplema argillodes
Epiplema coeruleotincta
Epiplema conflictaria
Epiplema desistaria

Epiplema leucosema
Epiplema quadristrigata

Strophidia directaria

Urapteroides astheniata

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(updated 4 April 2015, 26 June 2017)