Homospora rhodoscopa (Lower, 1902)
 (one synonym is Homospora procrita Turner, 1904)
OENOCHROMINAE,   GEOMETRIDAE,   GEOMETROIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Homospora rhodoscopa
(Photo: courtesy of Simon Ong, Kununurra, Western Australia)

The adult moths of this species have pale grey or brown wings each with various dark markings, usually including one or more fuzzy grey zigzag transverse lines. The females have thread-like antennae. The males have antennae with a feather-like fringes. The wingspan is about 4 cms.

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

This species has been found in

  • Western Australia,
  • Northern Territory, and
  • Queensland.

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

    Further Reading

    Oswald B. Lower,
    New Australian Lepidoptera.,
    Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
    Volume 26 (1902), p. 228.

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    (written 14 November 2021)