Thalassodes pilaria Guenee, 1857
GEOMETRINAEGEOMETRIDAE

Don Herbison-Evans ( donherbisonevans@yahoo.com )
&
Stella Crossley

(updated 13 January 2009)


(Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, Kuranda)

With wings that are green, the adult moths of this species are members of the group called 'Emeralds'. For this species, each wing has a faint darker band edged in white across the middle, and the hindwings each have an angular margin. The moths have a wing span of about 3 cms.

The species occurs across the south Pacific basin, including :

  • Fiji,
  • Society Islands,
  • Tahiti,
    as well as
  • Queensland in Australia.

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