NACOPHORINI , ENNOMINAE , GEOMETRIDAE
Don Herbison-Evans (
donherbisonevans@yahoo.com )
and
Cathy Young
&
Stella Crossley
(updated 20 September 2011)
(Photo: copyright Cathy Young)
Don Herbison-Evans (
donherbisonevans@yahoo.com )
and
Cathy Young
&
Stella Crossley
(updated 20 September 2011)
(Photo: copyright Cathy Young)
These Caterpillars are brown with a dotted dark band along the back flanked each side by dark zigzag lines. Their claspers are splayed out like a fish tail, and there are a pair of fleshy knobs with white tips on the second abdominal segment.
The caterpillars feed on the foliage of :
The adult moths have brown forewings, often each with a dark spot in the middle. The hindwings are pale brown darkening toward the margins.
The species occurs in
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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