A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife
Project Noah Nature School
Dichromodes sp.
The colours in the image are accurate
on grasses asleep at night in a woodland
File#Dark and gold leaf moth. research in progress. May also be Epidesmia and either of those stand at about 20% certainty. Both are (OENOCHROMINAE) in GEOMETRIDAE
Spotted on May 6, 2013
Submitted on May 6, 2013
4 Comments
The Lady in Black....
My first impression was Epidesmia.
That's one handsome moth.
I wonder if this is a dark variation of an Epidesmia sp. from OENOCHROMINAE among the Geometrids. It was a nocturnal catch and some of them seem to become dark