in the plant family LAURACEAE.

female
(Photo: courtesy of Peter Marriott, Moths of Victoria: Part 4)

The adult moths are green with purplish-brown markings on the wings, and additional white outlines to some of the brown marks. The females have an extra whitelines outlined in brown across each forewing. The moths have a wingspan of about 3 cms.

female, drawing by Achille Guenée, Uranides et Phalénites,
Histoire Naturelle des Insectes; Spécies Général des Lépidoptères,
Volume 9, Part 9 (1857), Plate 7, fig. 4,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.

The species is found in the southern half of Australia including

Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, pls. 11.25, 27.7, p. 373.

Achille Guenée,
Uranides et Phalénites,
in Boisduval & Guenée: Histoire Naturelle des Insectes; Spécies Général des Lépidoptères,
Volume 9, Part 9 (1857), p. 371, No. 591. and also Plate 7, fig. 4.

Peter Hendry,
At the light trap,
Butterflies and Other Invertebrates Club,
Newsletter Issue 45 (June 2007), pp. 18-22.

Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria: Part 4,
Emeralds and Allies - GEOMETROIDEA (B),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2012, pp. 30-31.

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(updated 29 June 2013, 18 June 2018, 29 April 2021)