| Grey Epidesmia (previously known as Panagra perfabricata) OENOCHROMINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Donald Hobern, Aranda, Australian Capital Territory)
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| Grey Epidesmia (previously known as Panagra perfabricata) OENOCHROMINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Donald Hobern, Aranda, Australian Capital Territory)
The adults are greyish-brown, with a sparse arc of dark spots, and a straight pale-edged dark dotted line parallel to the margin of each wing. The forewing margins are straighter than in other Epidesmia species. The moths have a wingspan of about 3.5 cms.
The species has been found in
Further reading :
Peter Hendry,
The genus Epidesmia (Lepidoptera: Geometridae),
Butterflies and Other Invertebrates Club,
Metamorphosis Australia,
Issue 102 (December 2021), pp. 34-39.
Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria: Part 4,
Emeralds and Allies - GEOMETROIDEA (B),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2012, pp. 18-19.
Francis Walker,
Geometrites,
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,
Part 23 (1861), p. 996, No. 22.
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(updated 20 July 2011, 16 August 2024)