Bracken Fern Geometrid Moth - Idiodes apicata

Family Geometridae

This page contains information about Bracken Fern Geometrid Moths that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.

Moth wingspan 40mm

 

This is a very variable species with or without small spots and with or without an oblique line from the apex of fore wing to the inner margin of hind wing.

 

 

Their looper caterpillars have only 4 prolegs. They are brown in colour with light and dark markings. They feed on Bracken Fern Pteridium esculentum. 

 

The photo shows the moth resting on the host plant. 

 

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Reference:

1. Moths of Australia - I. F. B. Common, Melbourne University Press, 1990, p366, fig35.3.

2. Idiodes apicata Guenée, 1857 - Don Herbison-Evans & Stella Crossley, 2011.  

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