Rhinodia rostraria

Rhinodia rostraria Guenée, 1857
(one synonym : Stegania allogata R.Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
Necklace Geometrid
CABERINI, ENNOMINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA

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

Rhinodia rostraria
female
(Photo: courtesy of Marilyn Hewish, Moths of Victoria: Part 7)

The adult moths have brown or grey wings with three imcomplete dark bands across each wing. The forewings have recurved wingtips. All four wings have wavy margins.

male
(Photo: courtesy of Axel Hausmann, SNSB, Zoologische Staatssammlung Muenchen)

The labial palps are long, and are usually held pointing forward. The wingspan is about 3 cms.

underside, female
(Photo: courtesy of Marilyn Hewish,
Moths of Victoria: Part 7)

underside, male
(Photo: courtesy of John Bromilow,
Ainslie, Australian Capital Territory)

The species occurs in south-east Australia, including:

Queensland,

New South Wales,

Australian Capital Territory,

Victoria,

Tasmania,

South Australia, and

Western Australia.

underside, female, drawing by Rudolf Felder, listed as Stegania allogata,
Zoologisher Theil, Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte Novara,
Band 2, Abtheilung 2 (5) (1875), Plate CXXXI, fig. 15.a,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.

Further reading :

Rudolf Felder & Alois F. Rogenhofer,
Zoologisher Theil,
Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte Novara,
Band 2, Abtheilung 2 (5) (1875), p. 18, and also Plate 131, figs. 15, 15.a.

Achille Guenée,
Uranides et Phalénites II,
in Boisduval & Guenée:
Histoire naturelle des insectes; spécies général des lépidoptères,
Volume 9, Part 10 (1857), pp. 125-126, No. 1122.

Marilyn Hewish,
Moths of Victoria: Part 7,
Bark Moths and Allies - GEOMETROIDEA (D),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2016, pp. 14-15.

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(updated 12 March 2011, 8 August 2018, 1 November 2020)