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Micronia moth
Micronia sp
12.2327, 79.0718
Field Notes
Description:
Micronia is a genus of moth of subfamily Microniinae of Family Uraniidae.
The adult moths of this species have speckled pale brown wings with two faint darker submarginal bands. Each forewing has a hooked apex, and at the tornus of each hindwing there is a short tail with a black spot. Like many moths in the family GEOMETRIDAE the moth has its wings open and flat in its resting posture.
Notes:
This moth was hiding under some leaves. It let me get really close, move the leaves from around it so I could get a good shot, but still it was quite dark where it was. Difficult to photograph.
The wing span was probably 3 -4 cms across, and I didn.t get a look at the outside of the wings. Haven't seen this one before in my garden, but then I'm paying more attention to the small, low flying, ground loving, ones
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