(previously known as Gonophaga subpulchra) BOARMIINI, ENNOMINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Buck Richardson, Kuranda, Queensland)
The coloration of the adult moth of this species is a blotchy brown, with a dark curved line across each wing. The margin of each forewing has a cusp, and the wingtip is hooked. The hindwings have scalloped margins. The wingspan is about 5 cms.
The species has been found in
Further reading :
William Warren,
New genera and species of moths from the Old-world regions in the Tring Museum,
Novitates Zoologicae,
Volume 4 (1897), p. 400, No. 61.
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(updated 16 April 2011)