| (previously known as Rhinoprora pallidiplaga) EUPITHECIINI, LARENTIINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Donald Hobern, Aranda, Australian Capital Territory)
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| (previously known as Rhinoprora pallidiplaga) EUPITHECIINI, LARENTIINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Donald Hobern, Aranda, Australian Capital Territory)
The adult moth of this species is grey-brown, with various pale bands across each wing. Sometimes , specimens have pale patches too. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.
The species has been found in :
The variability of this moth overlaps with the variability of Pasiphilodes testulata, so that often they cannot be distinguished.
Further reading :
William Warren,
New species and genera of the families Thyrididae, Uraniidae, Epiplemidae,
and Geometridae from the Old-World Regions,
Novitates Zoologicae,
Volume 5 (1898), pp. 25-26, No. 53.
 caterpillar |  butterflies |  Lepidoptera |  moths |  caterpillar |
(updated 26 April 2010, 20 January 2016, 13 November 2020, 27 February 2022)