Metallothea eucrostes L.B. Prout, 1916 GEOMETRINAE,   GEOMETRIDAE,   GEOMETROIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Johan Heyns, Mareeba, Qeensland)

The adult moth of this species has pale green wings, each crossed by several faint vague pale yellow curved bands. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.

(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/CNC/CBG Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The adult moth of this species has pale green wings, each crossed by some off-white and some pale yellow faint vague curved bands. The wings are edged by a narrow yellow line containing black markings. The body is pale green with black markings along the back. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

The species has been found in

Queensland.

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Further reading :

Louis Beethoven Prout,
New genera and species of Indo-Australian Geometridae,
Novitates Zoologicae,
Volume 23 (1916), p.15, No. 34.

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