(formerly known as Anisodes rhodobapta) STERRHINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
male, listed as Anisodes rhodobapta
(Photo: courtesy of Olga Schmidt, Queensland Museum)
The adult moths of this species are brown with a submarginal arc of dark dots on each wing. The wingspan is about 3 cms.
The species is found in
The current placement of this species in genus "Cyclophora" may need revision.
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. 58 a,b.
A. Jefferis Turner,
New species of Lepidoptera from the Barnard collection,
Memoirs of the Queensland Museum,
Volume 12, Part 1 (1941), p. 44.
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(written 19 June 2015)