DIPTYCHINI, ENNOMINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of Jesse & Peter Koch, Eridunna, Northern Territory)
The adult moth of this species has dark grey forewings each with dark veins and a white stripe along the costa. The hindwings are off-white, shading to grey at the the wing-tips. The wingspan is about 4 cms.
Unusually for Geometrids, it creases and folds its wings, like a collapsed tent, along its back when at rest.
The species has been found in:
A. Jefferis Turner,
Studies in Australian Lepidoptera,
Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 50 (1926), p. 128.
caterpillar | butterflies | Lepidoptera | moths | caterpillar |
(written 29 October 2021)