| Four-spot Bark Moth BOARMIINI, ENNOMINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of Olga Schmidt, Queensland Museum)
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| Four-spot Bark Moth BOARMIINI, ENNOMINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of Olga Schmidt, Queensland Museum)
The adult moths of this species have brown wings, each with a broad vague dark submarginal band and a number of vague pale patches including two pale patches, one in the middle and one at the apex of each wing, each containing a dark brown spot. The wingspan is about 4 cms.
The species has been found in:
Further Reading
Marilyn Hewish,
Moths of Victoria: Part 7,
Bark Moths and Allies - GEOMETROIDEA (D),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2016, pp. 20-21.
Olga Schmidt,
An annotated and illustrated list
of the primary type specimens of geometrid moths
deposited in the Queensland Museum (Australia, Brisbane),
Spixiana,
Volume 5, Part 1 (2012), pp. 79-100, Figs. 18 a,b.
A. Jefferis Turner,
New Australian species of Boarmiadae (Lepidoptera),
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland,
Volume 58 (1947), pp. 105-106, No. 85.
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(written 14 June 2015)