![]() | (previously known as Tigridoptera mariana) BOARMIINI, ENNOMINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, Kuranda, Queensland)
The adult moth of this species has black and white forewings, and black and yellow hindwings. It is one of Australia's largest Geometrids, having a wingspan of about 8 cms.
The species is found in
Further reading :
Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, pl. 10.17, p. 366.
Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 71.
Adam White,
Descriptions of some new species of Annulosa collected by Mr. MacGillivray
during the voyage of the Rattlesnake,
in J. MacGillivray & A. White,
Narrative of the voyage of H. M. S. Rattlesnake, commanded by the late Captain Owen Stanley
during the years 1846-50,
Volume 2 (1852), p. 391, and also
Plate 4, fig. 5.
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(updated 31 August 2010)