Lychnographa agaura Turner, 1917
NACOPHORINI, ENNOMINAE,
GEOMETRIDAE

Don Herbison-Evans ( donherbisonevans@yahoo.com )
&
Stella Crossley

(updated 16 May 2005)


(Specimen: courtesy of the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney)

The adult moth has white forewings with brown patches, and yellow hindwings each with a dark patch. The moths have a wingspan of about 3 cms.


slightly disembodied
(Photo: courtesy of Peter Marriott)


Further reading :

Catherine J. Young,
Characterisation of the Australian Nacophorini and a Phylogeny for the Geometridae from Molecular and Morphological Data, Ph.D. thesis, University of Tasmania, 2003.


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