Oenochroma cerasiplaga Warren, 1914 Green Wine Moth (one synonym is Oenochroma artia Turner, 1922) OENOCHROMINAE,   GEOMETRIDAE,   GEOMETROIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Jesse & Peter Koch, Cape Arid, Western Australia)

The adult moths of this species are basically green. The forewings are crossed by a yellow line, and have yellow along the costa and around the margin. The hindwings have a variable big brownish-yellow splodge in the middle, and some yellow along the margin. The forewings have recurved wing-tips. The head is brown. The wingspan is about 3.5 cms.

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

The species is found in:

Western Australia.

underside
(Photo: courtesy of Jesse & Peter Koch, Cape Arid, Western Australia)

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Further reading :

William Warren,
New species of Drepanulidae, Noctuidae, and Geometridae in the Tring Museum,
Novitates Zoologicae,
Volume 21 (1914), p. 425.

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(written 22 January 2021, updated 5 February 2021)