| Orange-barred Heath Moth OENOCHROMINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
male
(Photo: courtesy of
Jenny West,
Big Desert, Victoria)
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| Orange-barred Heath Moth OENOCHROMINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
male
(Photo: courtesy of
Jenny West,
Big Desert, Victoria)
The adult moths of this species are brown, with two pale lines across each forewing, each flanked by a rusty brown band, and joined by a pale bar. The hindwings are plain brown. The undersides are brown with a dark-edged pale submarginal arc under each wing. The females have thread-like antennae. The males have unipectinate antennae. The wingspan of both sexes is about 2.5 cms.
The species has been found in
Further reading :
Oswald B. Lower,
Descriptions of new Australian Lepidoptera,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 40 (1915), pp. 476-477.
Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria: Part 4,
Emeralds and Allies - GEOMETROIDEA (B),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2012, pp. 24-25.
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(written 28 April 2014, updated 14 November 2024)