| Brick-red Casbia CABERINI, ENNOMINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
female, oops abdomen missing
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
The moths of this species are pale reddish brown, each wing having variable markings, often including a submarginal arc of dark dots, and a black dot near the middle. The wingspan is about 3 cms.
The species has been found in
This moths of this species is very similar to those of Casbia melanops, and the names may be synonyms for only one species.
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. 64.
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(written 22 March 2018, updated 21 March 2023)