Chrysolarentia cataphaea (Meyrick, 1891) Plain Mountain Carpet (previously known as Hydriomena cataphaea) XANTHORHOINI,   LARENTIINAE,   GEOMETRIDAE,   GEOMETROIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley

(Photo: courtesy of Michael Keogh, Baw Baw, Victoria)

The adult moth of this species has brown wings with a pattern of bands of various shades of brown, with bubbly edges. The moth has a wing span of about 2.5 cms. The moth has been seen flying during the daytime.

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

Specimens of the adult moth of this species have been taken from the high country of

Victoria (such as Mt. Wellington and Mt. Arbuckle).

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

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Further reading:

Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria: Part 3,
Waves & Carpets - GEOMETROIDEA (C),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2011, pp. 16,17.

Edward Meyrick,
Revision of Australian Lepidoptera V,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 2, Volume 5, Part 4 (1890), p. 833, No. 41.

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(updated 5 September 2013, 6 February 2023)