Dichromodes molybdaria (Guenée, 1857) Plain Heath Moth (previously known as Panagra molybdaria) OENOCHROMINAE,   GEOMETRIDAE,   GEOMETROIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)

The adult moths of this species are pale brown and variable. Some specimens have a number of vague pale and dark submarginal lines on each forewing. Some have a broad dark band across each forewing.. The forewings also sometimes each have a dark dot near the middle or dark marks by the wingtip. 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 3 cms.

(Photo: courtesy of Joan Fearn, Moruya, New South Wales)

The species occurs in :

Victoria.

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

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Further Reading

Achille Guenée,
Uranides et Phalénites,
in Boisduval & Guenée:
Histoire naturelle des insectes; spécies général des lépidoptères,
Volume 9, Part 10 (1857), p. 131, No. 1133.

Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria: Part 4,
Emeralds and Allies - GEOMETROIDEA (B),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2012, pp. 22-23.

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(written 20 June 2013, updated 25 February 2022)