This Caterpillar is brown and smooth. It is a true looper with only one pair of ventral prolegs.

(Photo: courtesy of Evan Harris, Ipswich)

The adult moth has fawn wings with wavy patterns on them.

(Photo: courtesy of Peter Marriott, Melbourne)

The eggs are white and oval. They are laid in clusters or strings of half a dozen or so, on leaves of a food plant.

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

The species is found over the south-eastern quarter of Australia, including:

Tasmania.

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Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1990, fig. 34.15, p. 365.

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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