| White-patched Carpet (previously known as Hydriomena heteroleuca) XANTHORHOINI, LARENTIINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
male
(Photo: courtesy of
Donald Hobern, Aranda, Australian Capital Territory).
The adult male moths of this species have forewings that are banded in brown, often with a variable irregular sometimes incomplete white band across the middle. The females have no white band. The hindwings are yellow, each shading to brown at the tornus. The moths have a wing span of about 2.5 cms. At rest, the moths hold their wings flat, with the forewings covering the hindwings.
The species occurs in
Further reading:
Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria: Part 3,
Waves & Carpets - GEOMETROIDEA (C),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2011, pp. 18-19.
Edward Meyrick,
Revision of Australian Lepidoptera V,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 2, Volume 5, Part 4 (1890), p. 837, No. 47.
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(updated 3 March 2013, 8 April 2018, 31 March 2021)