Northern Emerald (previously known as Iodis rhodocosma) GEOMETRINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Ian McMillan, Imbil, Queensland)
The Caterpillars of this species feed on the young shoots and leaves of:
The adult moths are green with purplish-brown markings on the wings. The moths have a wingspan of about 3 cms.
The species has been found in
as well as in Australia in
The genus Prasinocyma is inappropriate for this species, but no suitable genus has yet been named and described for it.
Further reading :
Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, pl. 11.4, p. 373.
Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria: Part 4,
Emeralds and Allies - GEOMETROIDEA (B),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2012, pp. 32-33.
Edward Meyrick,
Revision of Australian Lepidoptera II,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 2, Volume 2, Part 4 (1888), pp. 889-890, No. 67.
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(updated 9 July 2011, 30 October 2014, 8 September 2019, 11 January 2021)