Austroterpna idiographa Goldfinch, 1929
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Austroterpna idiographa
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The adult moths of this species have fawn wings with some dark markings, including a dark zigzag line at the wingtip of each forewing and a broad dark band along the margin of each hindwing. The wingspan is about 3 cms.

Austroterpna idiographa
photo by Gilbert Macarthur Goldfinch, Revision of Australian Geometridae (Lepidoptera),
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, Volume 54 (1929), Plate XVI, fig. 19,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library,
digitized by Marine Biological Laboratory & Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library.

The species has been found in

  • Queensland,
  • New South Wales, and
  • South Australia.

    Further reading :

    Gilbert Macarthur Goldfinch,
    Revision of Australian Geometridae (Lepidoptera),
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Volume 54 (1929), p. 386, and also Plate XVI, fig. 19.

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    (updated 28 June 2013, 25 April 2014, 18 March 2021)