GEOMETRINAE of Australia
GEOMETRIDAE ,  GEOMETROIDEA

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

(updated 11 September 2008)

Note that the adult moths of many of the species listed below without links are illustrated on the CSIRO Entomology website.
Some notable species of the 165 Australian named species in GEOMETRINAE are :

  • Aeolochroma hypochromaria
    Aeolochroma metarhodata
    Aeolochroma mniaria
  • Aeolochroma olivia
  • Aeolochroma quadrilinea
  • Aeolochroma rhodochlora
  • Aeolochroma saturataria
    Aeolochroma turneri

  • Agathia distributa
  • Agathia kuehni
  • Agathia lycaenaria
  • Agathia ochrotypa
    Agathia pisina
    Agathia prasinaspis

  • Agathiopsis basipuncta
    Agathiopsis maculata

  • Albinospila floresaria

    Alloeopage cinerea

  • Anisozyga aphrias
  • Anisozyga callisticta
    Anisozyga erymnodes
    Anisozyga fascinans
    Anisozyga goniota
    Anisozyga insperata
  • Anisozyga lithocrossa
    Anisozyga metaspila
    Anisozyga pieroides : Bizarre Looper
    Anisozyga speciosa

  • Anomogenes morphnopa

  • Apodasmia rufonigraria

  • Argyrocosma argosticta

  • Austroterpna paratorna

    Berta chrysolineata

  • Cenochlora quieta

    Chlorocoma assimilis
    Chlorocoma cadmaria

  • Chlorocoma carenaria
    Chlorocoma dichloraria
    Chlorocoma externa
  • Chlorocoma melocrossa
  • Chlorocoma neptunus
    Chlorocoma tetraspila
  • Chlorocoma vertumnaria

  • Chlorodes boisduvalaria

    Chrysochloroma megaloptera

    Comostola cedilla
    Comostola chlorargyra

  • Comostola citrolimbaria
  • Comostola haplophanes
  • Comostola iodiodes
    Comostola laesaria
    Comostola leucomerata
    Comostola nereidaria

    Comostolopsis germana : Bitou Tip Moth

  • Cosmogonia decorata

    Crypsiphona ocultaria

  • Cymatoplex halcyone

    Cyneoterpna wilsoni

  • Diplodesma celataria

    Dysphania numana : Peacock Jewel

  • Epipristis oxycyma

  • Episothalma obscurata

    Eretmopus marinaria

  • Eucrostes disparata

    Eucyclodes buprestaria

  • Eucyclodes metaspila
  • Eucyclodes speciosa

    Euloxia fugitivaria
    Euloxia meandraria

  • Gelasma orthodesma

    Heliomystis electrica

  • Hemichloreis exoterica

  • Hemithea doddi
  • Hemithea pellucidula
    Hemithea wuka

  • Hypobapta barnardi
    Hypobapta diffundens
    Hypobapta percomptaria
  • Hypobapta xenomorpha

    Hypodoxa bryophylla

  • Hypodoxa deteriorata
    Hypodoxa emiliaria
  • Hypodoxa erebusata
    Hypodoxa muscosaria
  • Hypodoxa paroptila

  • Idiochlora bischofi
    Idiochlora celataria
  • Idiochlora schreieri

  • Iulops argocrana

  • Leucesthes alba

  • Lophothorax eremnopis

    Maxates centrophylla

  • Maxates hemitheoides

    Metallochlora lineata
    Metallochlora venusta

  • Metallothea eucrostes

    Mixocera latilineata

  • Mixochroa gratiosata

  • Neothela cissochroa

  • Oenochlora imperialis

    Oenospila flavilinea

  • Oxyphanes thiobapta

    Pamphlebia rubrolimbraria

  • Paraterpna harrisoni

    Pingasa angulifera
    Pingasa blanda
    Pingasa chlora : Flower-eating caterpillar
    Pingasa cinerea

  • Pingasa cornivalva
  • Pingasa lariaria
  • Pingasa lahayei
    Pingasa nobilis

  • Prasinocyma albicosta
  • Prasinocyma caniola
  • Prasinocyma floresaria
    Prasinocyma iosticta
    Prasinocyma ocyptera
    Prasinocyma rhodocosma

  • Protophyta benigna
  • Protophyta castanea

    Pyrrhorachis pyrrhogona

  • Rhuma subaurata

  • Sterictopsis divergens
  • Sterictopsis inconsequens

  • Thalassodes dorsilinea
    Thalassodes pilaria

    Uliocnemis biplagiata
    Uliocnemis partita

    Urolitha bipunctifera

  • Xenochlaena porphyropa

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