(formerly known as Boarmia leucanthes) BOARMIINI, ENNOMINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Petr Koch, Beaufort Inlet, Western Australia)
The adult moths of this species are pale grey with several pale-edged darker wavy lines on each wing. The forewings each have a dark dot near the middle, a vague dark line beside and parallel to the costa, and sometimes an arc of dark dots along the margin. The wingspan is about 3 cms.
The species has been found in
Further reading :
A. Jefferis Turner,
New Australian species of Boarmiadae (Lepidoptera),
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland,
Volume 58 (1947), p. 78, No. 18.
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(written 8 July 2023)