These caterpillars are brown with darker areas, and an orange head.

(Photo: copyright Cathy Young)

The adult moths are buff coloured with a criss-cross pattern of rusty brown lines.

(Photo: copyright Cathy Young)

The eggs are egg-shaped with microscopic ridges.

eggs, magnified
(Photo: copyright Cathy Young)

Further reading :

Peter B. McQuillan,
An overview of the Tasmanian geometrid moth fauna (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) and its conservation status,
Journal of Insect Conservation, Volume 8, Numbers 2-3 (June 2004) pp. 209-220.

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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