OENOCHROMINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Jesse & Peter Koch,
West Mount Barren, Western Australia)
The adult moths of this species have wings that each have basically a grey basal half, and a brown marginal half, separated by a partial dark line. The forewings also a have a thin wavy dark line in the basal half. The wing margins are scalloped. The wingspan of both sexes is about 3.5 cms.
The species occurs in
Further reading :
Edward Meyrick,
Revision of Australian Lepidoptera III,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 2, Volume 4, Part 4 (1890), p. 1213, No. 83.
caterpillar | butterflies | Lepidoptera | moths | caterpillar |
(written 21 January 2022)