White-spotted Carpet (previously known as Hydriomena callizona) LARENTIINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(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.
This species has been found in
The adult moths of this species can have a variable number of white patches on the forewings.
The moths are similar in pattern to the related species Eccymatoge fulvida, but has larger wings.
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)