Xanthorhoe orophylloides

Xanthorhoe orophylloides is a moth of the family Geometridae.

[3] In 1928 Hudson, in his seminal work The butterflies and moths of New Zealand, again discussed and illustrated this species.

[2] The male holotype specimen, collected at Carnley Harbour, is held at Te Papa.

The forewings are rather narrow, with the apex somewhat acute, and the termen slightly curved oblique, pale bluish-grey with pale brownish-black markings; a rather faint transverse line at about 1⁄3 strongly marked on the cell by a cloudy wedge-shaped mark; a stronger transverse line at 3⁄4 well marked by a series of dark marks on each of the veins, those nearest the cell being considerably larger than the rest; a fairly distinct terminal shading of dark grey and a large wedge-shaped pale apical area; the median hand generally is paler and browner than the rest of the wing.

This Xanthorhoini moth related article is a stub.

Illustration of X. orophylloides