Dirades lugens (Warren, 1897) (formerly known as Epiplema lugens) EPIPLEMINAE,   URANIIDAE,   GEOMETROIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Ian McMillan, Imbil, Queensland)

The adult moths of this species have a variable brownish-grey patchy wings. The hindwings each have a concave costa, and a pointed cusp on the margin. Like many moths in the subfamily EPIPLEMINAE, the moth often exhibits an interesting resting posture by creasing its wings.

(Photo: courtesy of Ian McMillan, Imbil, Queensland)

The species occurs in :

northern New South Wales.

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

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Further reading :

William Warren,
New Genera and Species of Drepanulidae, Thyrididae, Epiplemidae, Uraniidae, and Geometridae in the Tring Museum,
Novitates Zoologicae,
Volume 4 (1897), pp. 202-203, No. 21.

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(written 26 October 2014, updated 16 October 2018, 11 November 2020)