Brown Wedge-moth DIPTYCHINI, ENNOMINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Jenny Holmes, Great Western, Victoria)
The adult moth of this species has pale grey forewings each with dark veins and splodges, including a dark spot in the cell. Also the hindwings are pale grey. The wingspan is about 5 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:
Marilyn Hewish,
Moths of Victoria: Part 5 - Satin Moths and Allies - GEOMETROIDEA (A),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2014, pp. 6-7, 30-31.
A. Jefferis Turner,
Revision of Australian Lepidoptera. VI (Third instalment),
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 44 (1919), p. 398, No. 259.
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(updated 10 July 2010, 16 September 2013, 19 January 2021)