Sauris melanosterna Dugdale, 1980
TRICHOPTERYGINI,   LARENTIINAE,   GEOMETRIDAE,   GEOMETROIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Sauris melanosterna
(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.

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

The species is found in :

  • Queensland.


    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)