| Grey Wine Moth (previously known as Phallaria subustaria) OENOCHROMINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Donald Hobern, Aranda, Australian Capital Territory)
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| Grey Wine Moth (previously known as Phallaria subustaria) OENOCHROMINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Donald Hobern, Aranda, Australian Capital Territory)
This moth is brown with an arc of dark dots on each wing, and dark marks along the very edges of the wings. The forewings have recurved wingtips. The wingspan is about 3 cms.
The male and female are similar except that the females have thread-like antennae, and the males have feathery antennae.
The species has been found Australia in
The undersides are brown, except that each wing has a dark area along the margin.
Further reading :
Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria: Part 4,
Emeralds and Allies - GEOMETROIDEA (B),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2013, pp. 10-11.
Francis Walker,
Geometrites,
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,
Part 21 (1860), p. 283, No. 2.
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(updated 17 June 2013, 16 October 2022)