GEOMETRIDAE: Ennominae ²

Declana niveata Butler, 1879. Endemic.

The white hind wings easily separate it from the highly variable D. floccosa. Forewings are also paler and less strongly patterned

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1. (c) Possums' End, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Possums' End
2. Adapted by Tony Steer from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declana_niveata

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