Ecphyas holopsara Turner, 1929
OENOCHROMINAE,   GEOMETRIDAE,   GEOMETROIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Ecphyas holopsara
male
(Photo: courtesy of Olga Schmidt, Queensland Museum)

The adult moths of this species have brown wings, with dark wavy submarginal bands across each wing. The wingspan is about 4 cms.

Ecphyas holopsara
male, underside
(Photo: courtesy of Olga Schmidt, Queensland Museum)

The species occurs in

  • Western Australia.


    Further reading :

    Olga Schmidt,
    An annotated and illustrated list of the primary type specimens of geometrid moths deposited in the Queensland Museum (Australia, Brisbane),
    Spixiana,
    Volume 5, Part 1 (2012), pp. 79-100, Figs. 53 a,b.

    A. Jefferis Turner,
    Revision of Australian Oenochromidae (Lepidoptera) I,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Volume 54, Part 5 (1929), p. 499, No. 49.


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    (written 18 June 2015)