(one synonym is Stathmorrhopa hypsilopha Turner, 1919) DIPTYCHINI, ENNOMINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Rebecca Stroud,
Bli Bli, Queensland)
The adult moth have brown forewings, each with some variable dark dots near the middle, and a submarginal arc of dark dots. The hindwings are yellow, each shading to white at the base, and with a submarginal dark arc including an arc of dark dots. The wingspan is about 5 cms.
The species has been found in Australia in
Further reading :
A. Jefferis Turner,
Revision of Australian Lepidoptera. VI (Third instalment),
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 44 (1919), p. 391, No. 245.
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(written 16 September 2023, updated 5 November 2023)