Dolabrossa amblopa

Dolabrossa amblopa (Guest, 1887)
Shaded Cape-moth
(previously known as Amelora amblopa)
DIPTYCHINI, ENNOMINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Cathy Byrne & Stella Crossley

Dolabrossa amblopa
(Photo: copyright Cathy Byrne)

These Caterpillars are brown with dark markings, and have sparse stiff black hairs.

(Photo: courtesy of Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, University of Guelph, Canada, taken in Tasmania)

The adult moths are brown, with a dotted submarginal line on each wing. The undersides of each hindwing have a dark spot near the middle, which can be seen vaguely through from the upper surface. The wingspan is about 3 cms.

(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/CNC/CBG Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The species is found in

New South Wales,

Victoria,

Tasmania, and

South Australia.

wing undersides
(Photo: courtesy of Marilyn Hewish, Moths of Victoria: Part 5)

Further reading :

Edward Guest,
A classified list of Geometrina found around Balhannah, with notes on species,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 9 (1887), p. 138.

Marilyn Hewish,
Moths of Victoria: Part 5 - Satin Moths and Allies - GEOMETROIDEA (A),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2014, pp. 12-13.

Peter B. McQuillan,
The Tasmanian Geometrid Moths Associated with the Genus Amelora auctorum (Lepidoptera : Geometridae : Ennomina),
Invertebrate Taxonomy,
Volume 10, Issue 3, 1996, pp. 433-506.

Catherine J. Young,
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 18 June 2005, 6 October 2024)