Dichromodes mesotoma Turner, 1943 OENOCHROMINAE,   GEOMETRIDAE,   GEOMETROIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Rog Standen, Cooktown, Queensland)

The adults are greyish-brown with several dark wavy lines including a wider dark band across each forewing. The hindwings are plain brown. The females have thread-like antennae. The males have antennae with a feather-like fringe on one side. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.

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

The species has been found in

Queensland.

female, underside
(Photo: courtesy of Olga Schmidt, Queensland Museum)

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Further reading :

Olga Schmidt,
An annotated and illustrated list of the primary type specimens of geometrid moths deposited in the Queensland Museum (Australia, Brisbane),
Spixiana,
Volume 5, Part 1 (2012), pp. 79-100, Figs. 51 a,b.

A. Jefferis Turner,
New species of Lepidoptera from the Barnard collection,
Memoirs of the Queensland Museum,
Volume 12, Part 2 (1943), p. 107.

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(written 20 June 2013, updated 18 November 2024)