| (previously known as Onychodes multicolora) OENOCHROMINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
female
(Photo: courtesy of
Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)
|
| (previously known as Onychodes multicolora) OENOCHROMINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
female
(Photo: courtesy of
Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)
The adult moths of this species are brown, sometimes with a white patch near the tip of each forewing, and sometimes with a white patch near the tornus of each hindwing.
The forewings have hooked wingtips. The wingspans are 4-6 cms.
The species occurs in :
Further reading :
Thomas P. Lucas,
On 34 new species of Australian Lepidoptera, with additional localities,
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland,
Volume 8 (1892), pp. 81-82.
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. 45 a,b.
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(written 9 January 2013, updated 21 June 2021)