| Common Nearcha (previously known as Panagra ursaria) OENOCHROMINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Joan Fearn, Moruya, New South Wales)
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| Common Nearcha (previously known as Panagra ursaria) OENOCHROMINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Joan Fearn, Moruya, New South Wales)
The adult moths of this species are a speckled brown, with one or more wavy yellow-edged dark lines or arcs of dark spots across each wing.
The forewing tips are recurved. The males have a dark hair tuft along the underside of each hindwing costa. The males have bipectinate antennae. The females have thread-like antennae. The wingspan is about 3 cms.
The species has been found in
Further reading :
Achille Guenée,
in Boisduval & Guenée: Uranides et Phalénites,
Histoire naturelle des insectes; spécies général des lépidoptères,
Volume 9, Part 10 (1857), p. 129, No. 1128.
Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria: Part 4,
Emeralds and Allies - GEOMETROIDEA (B),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2012, pp. 18-19.
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(written 21 July 2013, 5 December 2017, 12 March 2019, 6 September 2020)