Mask Carpet (previously known as Tephrina graphicata) HYDRIOMENINI, LARENTIINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria: Part 3)
The adult moths of this species have brown forewings each with a bold pattern including a crooked transverse white-edged dark band. The hindwings are fawn coloured. The moths have a wing span of about 2 cms.
The species is found in
Further reading:
Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria: Part 3,
Waves & Carpets - GEOMETROIDEA (C),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2011, pp. 28-29.
Francis Walker,
Geometrites,
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,
Part 23 (1861), p. 967, No. 40.
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(updated 24 September 2011, 12 September 2013, 31 March 2021)