Green and Brown Carpet (previously known as Phrissogonus catastreptes) LARENTIINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
pupa
(Photo: courtesy of
David Akers,
Won Wron, Victoria)
The Caterpillars of this species are thought to feed on a variety of plants, including
The pupa was found on foliage of a Wattle.
The adult moths have a scalloped banded brown pattern on the wings. The wingspan is about 2 cms.
The species is found in
Further reading :
Peter B. McQuillan, Jan A. Forrest, David Keane, & Roger Grund,
Caterpillars, moths, and their plants of Southern Australia,
Butterfly Conservation South Australia Inc., Adelaide (2019), p. 106.
Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria: Part 3,
Waves & Carpets - GEOMETROIDEA (C),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2011, pp. 30-31.
Edward Meyrick,
Revision of Australian Lepidoptera IV,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 2, Volume 5 (1890), pp. 797-798, No. 4.
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(updated 16 September 2013, 27 April 2023)