These Caterpillars are brown with dark along the back flanked each side by dark zigzag lines. Their claspersare splayed out like a fish tail, and there are a pair of fleshy knobs on the second abdominal segment.

The caterpillars feed on the foliage of :

various Gum Trees ( Eucalyptus species, MYRTACEAE ).

The species occurs in the mountains of Tasmania.

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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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