Agathia pisina
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Family: | Geometridae
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Species: | A. pisina
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Agathia pisina is a species of moth of the family Geometridae first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1887. It is found in Australia (including Queensland) and Norfolk Island.
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Adults are green with brown markings. The hindwings have a cusp halfway along the margin. There is also a brown cusp white spot at each hindwing tornus.[2]
The larvae feed on Gymnanthera oblonga.
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Wikispecies has information related to Agathia pisina. |
- ^ Australian Faunal Directory
- ^ Herbison-Evans, Don & Crossley, Stella (18 February 2018). "Agathia pisina Butler, 1887". Australian Caterpillars and their Butterflies and Moths. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
Categories:
- Moths described in 1887
- Geometrinae
- Moths of Australia
- Geometrinae stubs