Zamacra juglansiaria Graeser

[DR. JAMES ADAMS]

Donald Hobern wrote:

> Can anyone here tell me anything about the Geometrid illustrated on the
> Moths of Japan web site at:
> 
> http://www2.ask.ne.jp/~gen0759/jmoth.html
> 
> The photograph seems to show a moth with the forewings held rigidly
> perpendicular to the body in the manner of a plume moth (Pterophoridae)
> and the hind wings along the line of the abdomen.  Is this really how
> this moth rests?

Actually, there is a whole group of moths that sits this way -- the 
epiplemids (or epiplemine uraniids, depending on who you talk to).  I 
haven't looked at the picture myself, but if there are epiplemids in 
Japan, my bet is that Zamacra juglansiaria may be an epiplemid and 
not a geometrid.

            James

Dr. James K. Adams
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