(formerly known as Euphyia propinqua) LARENTIINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
male
(Photo: courtesy of Olga Schmidt, Queensland Museum)
The adult moth of this species has forewings which each have a dark complex brown pattern, and paler brown hindwings which each have a faint pattern of dark zig-zag lines. The wingspan is about 3 cms.
The species is found in Australia in:
Further reading:
Olga Schmidt,
An annotated and illustrated list of the primary type specimens of geometrid moths
deposited in the Queensland Museum (Australia, Brisbane),
Spixiana,
Volume 5, Part 1 (2012), pp. 79-100, Figs. 39 a,b.
A. Jefferis Turner,
New Australian Lepidoptera,
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland,
Volume 47 (1936), p. 26.
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(written 17 June 2015)