Bright Geometrid DIPTYCHINI, ENNOMINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Joan Fearn, Moruya, New South Wales)
The Caterpillars of this species are thought to feed on
The adult moth has white forewings with a bold pattern of dark grey or brown patches, and yellow hindwings each with a dark patch. The moths have a wingspan of about 4 cms.
The moths have been found in
Further reading :
Marilyn Hewish,
Moths of Victoria: Part 5,
Satin Moths and Allies - GEOMETROIDEA (A),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2014, pp. 20-21.
A. Jefferis Turner,
Revision of the Australian Lepidoptera. VI,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 42 (1917), pp. 388-389, No. 127.
Cathy Byrne,
Characterisation of the Australian Nacophorini and a Phylogeny for the
Geometridae from Molecular and Morphological Data,
Ph.D. thesis, University of Tasmania, 2003.
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(updated 22 April 2012, 9 January 2016, 8 September 2021)