Boarmia driophila Goldfinch, 1944
 BOARMIINI,   ENNOMINAE,   GEOMETRIDAE,   GEOMETROIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

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

The adult moths of this species are brown, with broad dark areas at the margins and at the bases of the wings. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

Boarmia driophila
male
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The The species has been found in:

  • Queensland,
  • New South Wales, and
  • Victoria.

    The genus of this species is under review.

    Further reading :

    Gilbert Macarthur Goldfinch,
    Notes on Australian Boarmiidae and Oenochromidae (Lepidoptera) with descriptions of new species,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Volume 69 (1944), p. 193.

    Marilyn Hewish,
    Moths of Victoria: Part 7,
    Bark Moths and Allies - GEOMETROIDEA (A)    ,
    Entomological Society of Victoria, update 56 (2017).

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    (updated 9 July 2010, 12 August 2018)