Capusa leptoneura (Turner, 1926)
(formerly known as Chlenias leptoneura)
DIPTYCHINI,   ENNOMINAE,   GEOMETRIDAE,   GEOMETROIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Capusa leptoneura
(Photo: courtesy of Helen Wakefield, Bindoon, Western Australia)

The adult moth of this species has grey forewings each with a dark mark halfway along the hind-margin. The hindwings are off-white, shading to grey at the the wing-tips. The head and thorax are black. The wingspan is about 4 cms.

Capusa leptoneura
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

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:

  • Western Australia.


    A. Jefferis Turner,
    Studies in Australian Lepidoptera,
    Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia,
    Volume 50 (1926), p. 128.


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    (written 15 September 2022)