Sauris melanosterna Dugdale, 1980 TRICHOPTERYGINI,   LARENTIINAE,   GEOMETRIDAE,   GEOMETROIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, Kuranda, Queensland)

The adult moth of this species has forewings with a complex pattern of shades of green. The hindwings are plain, and only about half the size of the forewings. The green hue fades to brown in museum specimens.

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

The species is found in :

Queensland.

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Further reading :

J.S. Dugdale,
Australian Trichopterygini (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) with descriptions of eight new taxa,
Australian Journal of Zoology,
Volume 28 (1980), p. 331, figs. 15, 16, 38, 51, 83, 84, 103, 104.

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(written 26 May 2013, updated 21 February 2020)