(previously known as Caricomotis tenebrata) BOARMIINI, ENNOMINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, from
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art
The adult moth of this species is greyish-brown with several submarginal wiggly lines. Each wing also has a white spot on the margin, and a mauve shading across the middle.
The species has been found in
as well as in Australia in
Further reading :
David Stephen Fletcher,
A revision of the genus Carecomotis (Lep. Geometridae),
Annals and Magazine of Natural History,
Volume 12, Part 6 (1953), p. 122.
Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 62.
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(updated 26 October 2004, 7 February 2010)