![]() | Flame Geometrid S10 Female, underwing | Dusky-barred Geometrid S2, Female, dorsal | ![]() | |||
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Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||||||||||||
Order: | Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera) | |||||||||||||
Family: | Geometer (:Geometridae Ennominae Macariini) | |||||||||||||
Species: | Dusky-barred Geometrid (Paramelora zophodesma)This Photo: | S1, Female, dorsal | General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere Head & body ~12mm, wingspan ~14mm. Male antennae are bipectinate, females filiform. Like their close relations, the Flame Geometrid, these have small red flecks; individual scales that are red. S2 has an unusual line which runs around most of the of the wing edges.
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