(also known as Anisodes punctata) STERRHINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
The adult moths of this species are pale brown with variable dark markings including scattered dark dots on each wing, and sometimes an orange spot in the middle of each hindwing. The moths have a wingspan of about 1.5 cms.
The species is found across west Pacific, including :
and in Australia in
Further reading :
William Warren,
New Genera and Species of Drepanulidae, Thyrididae,
Epiplemidae, Uraniidae, and Geometridae in the Tring Museum,
Novitates Zoologicae,
Volume 4 (1897), p. 222, No. 78.
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(updated 7 July 2005, 31 March 2017, 23 November 2020)