Idiodes rhacodes Turner, 1947 LITHININI,   ENNOMINAE,   GEOMETRIDAE,   GEOMETROIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley

(Photo: courtesy of Ian McMillan, Imbil, Queensland)

The adult moth of this species is brown, with some dark markings on each forewing, and lots of incomplete pale arcs on each hindwing. The wings have broadly scalloped margins. The wingspan is about 3 cms.

(Photo: courtesy of Dianne Clarke, Mapleton, Queensland)

The species occurs in Australia in

New South Wales.

underside
(Photo: courtesy of Aila Keto, Springbrook, Queensland)

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Further reading :

Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 65.

A. Jefferis Turner,
New Australian species of Boarmiadae (Lepidoptera),
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland,
Volume 58 (1947), p. 100, No. 71.

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(written 7 October 2014, updated 22 December 2016, 12 November 2019, 11 May 2021)