Chlorocoma melocrossa (Cream-fringed Emerald)

,<p class="MsoNormal">Chlorocoma dichloraria, vertumnaria and melocrossa are difficult to distinguish.&nbsp; They each have faint white wiggly lines on the forewing, a yellowish-white line running along the top of abdomen, and a variable degree of red on the fringes of the forewings.&nbsp; Their separation in CNM is done mainly by using the criteria on the CD accompanying Moths of Victoria Part 4. Chlorocoma melocrossa is bluish-green with a broad yellow fringe, sometimes with touch of red at the apex or base of the forewing; the fringes of C. vertumnaria are yellow on the inside, and red on the outside encompassing a row on black dots in fresh specimens; and C. dichloraria is apple green with a less prominent red outer fringe.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">There are other Chlorocoma present in the ACT and they have other distinguishing criteria, most of which are covered in Moths of Victoria.&nbsp; &nbsp;In particular, C. vertumnaria and C. undescribed species MoV3 are separated by the line along the top of the abdomen being plain yellowish-white in the former, and having some red in the latter.</p>