(previously Hypochroma wilsoni)
GEOMETRINAE , GEOMETRIDAE
Don Herbison-Evans (
donherbisonevans@yahoo.com )
&
Stella Crossley
(updated 30 June 2008)
(Photo: courtesy of
Alan Melville, Tasmania)
Don Herbison-Evans (
donherbisonevans@yahoo.com )
&
Stella Crossley
(updated 30 June 2008)
(Photo: courtesy of
Alan Melville, Tasmania)
These caterpillars feed on the leaves of various species of
The adult moth of this species is pale grey with dark veins. The wingspan is about 4 cms.
This species occurs in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania.
Further Reading:
Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, p. 372.
C. P. Ohmar, L. G. Stewart, & J. R. Thomas
Phytophagous insect communities in the canopies of
three Eucalyptus forest types in south-eastern Australia,
Austral Ecology,
Volume 8, Issue 4 (December 1983), p. 395-403
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