male pupa
(Photo: courtesy of Steve Williams, Moths of Victoria: Part 5)

The pupa is a rusty brown.

male
(Photo: courtesy of Marilyn Hewish, Moths of Victoria: Part 5)

The adults have grey or fawn forewings, each with variable orange patches, and dark wiggly lines including a variable dark line along the centre.

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

The hindwings are grey, darkening toward the margins, each with a faint submarginal dark zigzag line, and a dark spot near the middle. The hindwings have a rounded kite shape, with a slightly concave part near the tornus. The moths have a wingspan of about 3 cms.

female
(Photo: courtesy of Marilyn Hewish, Moths of Victoria: Part 5)

The eggs are oval and off-white, turning darker as hatching approaches. They are laid in an open cluster.

eggs
(Photo: courtesy of Steve Williams, Moths of Victoria: Part 5)

The species is found over most of the non-tropical regions of Australia, including:

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

Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, fig. 34.10, p. 364.

Marilyn Hewish,
Satin Moths and Allies - GEOMETROIDEA (A),
Moths of Victoria: Part 5,
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2014, pp. 16-17.

Oswald B. Lower,
Descriptions of New South Australian Lepidoptera,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 15 (1892), p. 9.

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. 15 a,b.

A. Jefferis Turner,
New Australian species of Boarmiadae (Lepidoptera),
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland,
Volume 58 (1947), pp. 91-92, No. 48.

Cathy Byrne,
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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