Comostola iodioides (T.P. Lucas, 1891)
(previously known as Agathia iodioides)
GEOMETRINAE,   GEOMETRIDAE,   GEOMETROIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
( 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 green with the wings having an irregular brown border.

This species occurs in

  • Northern Territory,
  • Queensland.


    Further reading :

    Ian F.B. Common,
    Moths of Australia,
    Melbourne University Press, 1990, plate 27.6, p. 374.

    Thomas P. Lucas,
    On Queensland and other Australian Lepidoptera, with descriptions of new species,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Series 2, Volume 6, Part 2 (1891), p. 295.


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    (updated 18 April 2006, 3 March 2017)