| Yellow-headed Heath Moth (one synonym : Darantasia mundiferaria Walker, 1863) OENOCHROMINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of Alison Milton,
Mulligans Flat, Australian Capital Territory)
The adult moths of this species have brown forewings, each having two dark-edged pale curvy submarginal lines, and an irregularly scalloped marginal area, and a vague oval dark spot near the middle. The hindwings are plain brown each with one submarginal pale line. The small head is yellow. The wingspan is about 3 cms. The moth often flies in the daytime.
The species has been found in
Further reading :
Achille Guenée,
Uranides et Phalénites,
in Boisduval & Guenée:
Histoire Naturelle des Insectes; Spécies Général des Lépidoptères,
Volume 9, Part 10 (1857), p. 98, No. 1075.
Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria: Part 4,
Emeralds and Allies - GEOMETROIDEA (B),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2012, pp. 20-21.
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(updated 30 March 2013, 4 November 2017, 16 October 2020)