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Prasinocyma semicrocea
About 40mm wingspan. Wings emerald colour with dark reddish trailing margin and straight, pale yellow costal margin. Wing patterns consist of two arcing pale jagged lines. Some long fur noticed just over the thorax. This one looks male by the feathery antennae..
Drawn to night lights at the local school which is surrounded by dry eucalyptus forests.
I am aware of a lot of mistakes and confusion over the subtleties with these green geometrids on the web so caution is in order with ID. http://bie.ala.org.au/species/Prasinocym... http://www.lepbarcoding.org/australia/sp...
Spotted on Sep 8, 2013
Submitted on Sep 9, 2013
2 Comments
It would have been better for you with slightly warmer weather. We thought we would find nothing as usual because winter was still blasting through Melbourne... then one day of warm and zappo! out came a moth holding up a sign 'Take me for Moth Week'.
very nice...I missed moth week sigh