Geometer moths (Geometridae)

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Geometer moths (Geometridae)

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WendyEM wrote:

Yesterday

Eucyclodes fascinans
https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimens.php?taxid=97032
https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations?taxon_id=486374

Unverified Geometer moth (Geometridae)

WendyEM wrote:

Yesterday

Idaea iodesma
https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/8eb20822-1ee8-4a67-bd97-d9f1819dab05#names
https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimens.php?taxid=141804
https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations?verifiable=true&taxon_id=711772&place_id=6744&preferred_place_id=6744

Idaea (genus)

DianneClarke wrote:

Yesterday

I haven't been able to find one with these stripes

Fisera hypoleuca

ibaird wrote:

2 May 2025

See notes here copied fron Sighting 4517837
For notes identifying features separating Chloroclystis filata, and Chloroclystis pallidiplaga/Pasiiphodes testulata see pp. 196-7 of 'Moths in the ACT' (Cocking et al (2022). ie.: "C. filata 'is very common and can be recognised by the dark patch inside the apex of the forewing, and in some specimens there is also a white patch extending inwards from near the inner margin (see arrows on photos p. 196). Chloroclystis pallidiplaga (or Pasidiphilodes [Chloroclystis] testulata, a very similar species) usually has two distinctive white patches on the forewing in different positions from the white patch that can occur on C. filata." (These different white patch positions are illustrated on pp. 196 and 197 for the two different species).

Chloroclystis pallidiplaga

ibaird wrote:

2 May 2025

Better still, see the identification notes reproduced at Sighting No. 4517837 cited from 'Moths in the ACT' (Cocling et al 2022), pp.196-7.

Chloroclystis filata