Cleptocosmia mutabilis Warren, 1896 LARENTIINAE,   GEOMETRIDAE,   GEOMETROIDEA

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

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

The adult moth of this species has yellow-brown finely patterned wings. The wings have slightly scalloped margins. The margins of the hindwings each have a round angle. The moths have a wingspan of about 2.5 cms.

The species has been found in :

Queensland.

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Further reading :

William Warren,
New species of Drepanulidae, Thyrididae, Uraniidae, Epilemidae, and Geometridae in the Tring Museum,
Novitates Zoologicae,
Volume 3 (1896), p. 383, No. 123.

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(written 3 January 2022)