Encryphia frontisignata (Walker, [1863]) (one synonym : Idiodes ceramopis Turner, 1919) OENOCHROMINAE,   GEOMETRIDAE,   GEOMETROIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Deane Lewis, Cania Gorge, Queensland)

The adults of this species are pale brown with a two dark bands across each forewing, and one across each hindwing, although the shade is rather variable. The forewing margins are slightly recurved near the wingtips. The wingspan is about 3 cms.

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

The species is found in

New South Wales.

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Further reading

Francis Walker,
Geometrites,
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,
Part 26 (1863), p. 1523, Ref. 234.

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(written 16 April 2013, updated 6 March 2023)