EPIPLEMINAE, URANIIDAE, 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 fawn with a few dark spots on each wing. The forewings each also have two tear-drop shaped transparent windows by the base. The wings have wavy margins. The wingspan is about 2 cms.
The species occurs in :
as well as in Australia in
Further reading :
Charles Swinhoe,
Sphinges and Bombyces,
Catalogue of eastern and Australian Lepidoptera Heterocera
in the collection of the Oxford University Museum,
Clarendon Press, Part 1 (1892), p. 105, No. 469, and also
Plate 3, Fig. 20.
Francis Walker,
Catalogue of the Heterocerous Lepidopterous Insects collected at Sarawak,
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,
Volume 6 (1862), p. 117, No. 118.
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(updated 14 August 2004, 15 October 2013, 27 March 2015, 11 November 2020)