Desert Casbia CABERINI, ENNOMINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
female
(Photo: courtesy of Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria: Part 7)
The moths of this species are pale brown, each wing having variable markings, often including a submarginal arc of dark-outlined white spots, and a black spot near the middle. There is a white strip on the head between the antennae. The wingspan is about 2 cms.
The species occurs in
Further reading :
Marilyn Hewish,
Moths of Victoria: Part 7,
Bark Moths and Allies - GEOMETROIDEA (A),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2016, pp. 12-13.
A. Jefferis Turner,
New Australian species of Boarmiadae (Lepidoptera),
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland,
Volume 58 (1947), p. 97, No. 63.
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(written 22 March 2018)