Striped Cape-moth (formerly known as Liodes leucaniata) DIPTYCHINI, ENNOMINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Cathy Byrne & Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Greg Bellion,
Macclesfield, Victoria)
The moths of this species are off-white with thick dark veins on the wings. They have a wingspan of about 4 cms.
This species has been found in
The eggs are oval and white, and minutely ridged. As they approach hatching, they develop brown spots and later become entirely orange.
Further reading :
Achille Guenée,
Uranides et Phalénites II,
in Boisduval & Guenée:
Histoire naturelle des insectes; spécies général des lépidoptères,
Volume 9, Part 10 (1857), p. 120, No. 1113, and also
Plate 18, fig. 3.
Marilyn Hewish,
Moths of Victoria: Part 5,
Satin Moths and Allies - GEOMETROIDEA (A),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2014, pp. 12-13, 19, back cover.
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 20 July 2010, 3 April 2023)