| White-lined Carpet (previously known as Euphyia heterotropa) XANTHORHOINI, LARENTIINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
The adult moth of this species has brown forewings with several rippled bands across each one separated by white lines. The hindwings may be brown or orange, each with some darker brown arcs, and a broad darker brown band along the margin. The wingspan is about 2.5 cms.
The species has been found in
Further reading:
Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria: Part 3,
Waves & Carpets - GEOMETROIDEA (C),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2011, pp. 14-15.
A. Jefferis Turner,
New and Little known Tasmanian Lepidoptera,
courtesy of the
Library Open Repository, University of Tasmania Library,
Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania,
1925, pp. 89-90.
 caterpillar |  butterflies |  Lepidoptera |  moths |  caterpillar |
(written 26 February 2022)
