female
(Photo: courtesy of Marilyn Hewish, Moths of Victoria: Part 7)

The adult moth is light brown with wavy transverse dark brown lines extending across both wings. The wingspan is about 4 cms.

male
(Photo: courtesy of Marilyn Hewish, Moths of Victoria: Part 7)

The eggs are yellow, oval, and minutely pitted all over.

eggs, magnified
(Photo: copyright Cathy Byrne)

The species has been found in

underside
(Photo: courtesy of Katarina Christenson, Melba, Australian Capital Territory)

male, drawing by Achille Guenée, listed as Boarmia bitaeniaria,,
Deltoïdes et Pyralites, Histoire Naturelle des Insectes; Spécies Général des Lépidoptères,
Volume 9, Part 9 (1854), Plate 3, fig. 1,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.

Further reading :

Achille Guenée,
Deltoïdes et Pyralites,
in Boisduval & Guenée: Histoire Naturelle des Insectes; Spécies Général des Lépidoptères,
Volume 9, Part 9 (1854), p. 249, No. 379, and also Plate 3, fig. 1.

Marilyn Hewish,
Moths of Victoria: Part 7,
Bark Moths and Allies - GEOMETROIDEA (D),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2016, pp. 18-19, 22-23.

Elie Jean Francois Le Guillou,
Description de huit espèces de Lépidoptères découvertes pendant le voyage de la Zélee,
Revue Zoologique par la Societe Cuvierienne,
Paris, 1841, p. 258, No. 7.

Peter B. McQuillan, Jan A. Forrest, David Keane, & Roger Grund,
Caterpillars, moths, and their plants of Southern Australia,
Butterfly Conservation South Australia Inc., Adelaide (2019), p. 118.

Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 64.

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(updated 24 July 2013, 14 July 2018, 30 August 2020)