Smyriodes aplectaria Guenee, 1857
(one synonym is : Stibaroma triphasia Turner, 1919)
NACOPHORINI , ENNOMINAEGEOMETRIDAE

Don Herbison-Evans ( donherbisonevans@yahoo.com )
and
Catherine J. Young & Stella Crossley

(updated 14 June 2005)


(Photo: copyright Cathy Young)

The adults are grey with dark zig-zag markings on the forewings.


eggs, magnified
(Photo: copyright Cathy Young)

The eggs are oval and white, and covered in micriscopic dimples.


Further reading :

Catherine J. Young,
Characterisation of the Australian Nacophorini and a Phylogeny for the Geometridae from Molecular and Morphological Data, Ph.D. thesis, University of Tasmania, 2003.


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