Mixochroa gratiosata Guenée, 1857 (previously known as Nemoria gratiosata) GEOMETRINAE,   GEOMETRIDAE,   GEOMETROIDEA

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

male
(Photo: courtesy of JohnBundock, Mount Aggie, Australian Capital Territory)

The adult moths of this species have forewings that are green, each with markings including a yellow costa, and a variable incomplete submarginal white arc.

female
(Photo: courtesy of Andrew Mitchell, Australian Museum)

The hindwings are yellow. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

male
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

This species occurs in

Tasmania.

male, drawing by Achille Guenée, Uranides et Phalénites,
Histoire Naturelle des Insectes; Spécies Général des Lépidoptères,
Volume 9, Part 10 (1857), Plate 17, fig. 1,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.

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Further reading :

Achille Guenée,
Uranides et Phalénites,
in Boisduval & Guenée: Histoire Naturelle des Insectes; Spécies Général des Lépidoptères,
Volume 9, Part 10 (1857), p. 351, No 548, and also Plate 17, fig. 1.

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(updated 29 June 2013, 24 February 2019)