| Brown Carpet (previously known as Euphyia aprepta) XANTHORHOINI, LARENTIINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
male
(Photo: courtesy of
Jenny Holmes, Great Western, Victoria)
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| Brown Carpet (previously known as Euphyia aprepta) XANTHORHOINI, LARENTIINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
male
(Photo: courtesy of
Jenny Holmes, Great Western, Victoria)
The adult moth of this species has brown wings with scalloped edges and scalloped patterns. The pattern is much more marked on the forewings. The wingspan is about 3 cms. In the resting posture, the wings are flat, but the forewings cover the hindwings.
The female is similar in appearance to the male, but has a resting posture with tip of the abdomen upturned.
The species has been found in:
Further reading:
Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria: Part 3,
Waves & Carpets - GEOMETROIDEA (C),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2011, pp. 16,17.
A. Jefferis Turner,
Australian Lepidoptera of the group Geometrites,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 46 (1922), p. 253.
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(updated 27 February 2013, 17 September 2013, 20 January 2016, 3 April 2021)