| Pale-tipped Carpet (previously known as Hydriomena leucophanes) XANTHORHOINI, LARENTIINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Wendy Moore,
Freshwater Creek, Victoria)
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| Pale-tipped Carpet (previously known as Hydriomena leucophanes) XANTHORHOINI, LARENTIINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Wendy Moore,
Freshwater Creek, Victoria)
The Caterpillar of this species is a patchy brown with a blunt head, and is missing the first three pairs of prolegs.
The caterpillar grows to a length of about 2.5 cms, feeding on
The adult moth has brown forewings each crossed by a broken dark line from apex to the middle of the hind margin, and each with a pale elliptical area by the apex. The hindwings are brown with indistinct banded patterns. The moths have a wingspan of about 2.5 cms. The males and females have similar wing patterns, but the females are inclined to be a little larger than the males.
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. 20-21.
Edward Meyrick,
Revision of Australian Lepidoptera V,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 2, Volume 5, Part 4 (1890), p. 856, No. 71.
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(written 9 March 2013, updated 12 August 2024)