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Family
Geometridae
- This page contains pictures and information about Moths and Caterpillars
in subfamily Oenochrominae that we found in the
Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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 - Oenochromin Caterpillar
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- For the adults in this subfamily, there are the stout-bodied group and the
slender-bodied group.
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- Fallen Bark Looper
 - Gastrophora
henricaria, length
60mm
- We
found the caterpillar on gum tree trunk near the ground during late summer. We
waited for one whole year to see it turned into a moth. Visit this page for
more pictures and information.
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- Dry Leaf Geometrid Moth
 - ? Zeuctophlebia sp. body length 15mm
- The moth was found resting on forest floor. It was hard to be seen for its
camouflaged dry leaf colours. Both moths were found in Karawatha Forest on July 2007.
Please check this page for more information.
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- Pink Bellied Moth
  - Oenochroma vinaria, wingspan 40mm
- This moth is pink in colour, found come to our house at one summer night.
The colour of this moths can be brown to pink within species, resemble a dry
gum leaf. All of them have recurved wingtips and a yellow line across each
wing. This moths have many common names such as Hakea Moths, Grevillea
Moths and Win-coloured Moths. Their caterpillars are brown in
colour, have a large black band with white dots, feed on Grevillea and Hakea.
- Reference:
- 1. Oenochroma
vinaria
Guenee, 1857 - Don Herbison-Evans & Stella Crossley, 2008.
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- Triangular moth
  - Epidesmia sp.,
wings span 40mm
- Their caterpillars feed on gum tree leaves, brown in colour with some white
spots and resembles twig. The moths like to rest on ground among dry plants
materials.
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- Grey Geometrid Moth
 - Dichromodes sp.,
wings span 20mm
- Picture taken on Aus 2007 in Karawatha Forest.
- Reference:
- 1. Dichromodes
sp. - Insects of Townsville, Australia - Graeme Cocks
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- Reference:
- 1. Moths
of Australia - I. F. B. Common, Melbourne University Press,
1990, p368.
- 2. A
Guide to Australian Moths - Paul Zborowski, Ted Edwards, CSIRO
PUBLISHING, 2007, p137.
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