Eccymatoge callizona (Lower, 1894)
White-spotted Carpet
 (previously known as Hydriomena callizona)
LARENTIINAE,   GEOMETRIDAE,   GEOMETROIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Eccymatoge callizona
(Photo: courtesy of Elaine McDonald Nicholls Rivulet, Tasmania)

The adult moth of this species has brown patterned wings. The wing margins are scalloped. The forewings are about 50% larger in area than the hindwings. The moth has a wingspan of about 3.5 cms.

Eccymatoge callizona
(Photo: courtesy of Peter Marriott, Moths of Victoria: Part 3)

This species has been found in

  • Queensland,
  • Norfolk Island,
  • New South Wales,
  • Victoria,
  • Tasmania, and
  • Westerm Australia.

    Eccymatoge callizona
    (Photo: courtesy of Peter Marriott, Moths of Victoria: Part 3)

    The adult moths of this species can have a variable number of white patches on the forewings.

    Eccymatoge callizona
    (Photo: courtesy of Peter Marriott, Moths of Victoria: Part 3)

    The moths are similar in pattern to the related species Eccymatoge fulvida, but has larger wings.

    Eccymatoge callizona
    underside
    (Photo: courtesy of Elaine McDonald Nicholls Rivulet, Tasmania)

    Further reading:

    Peter Marriott,
    Moths of Victoria: Part 3,
    Waves & Carpets - GEOMETROIDEA (C)    ,
    Entomological Society of Victoria, 2011, pp. 34-35.

    Oswald B. Lower,
    New Australian Heterocera,
    Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
    Volume 18 (1894), pp. 78-79.

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    (written 8 September 2013, updated 22 July 2019)