Chaetolopha leucophragma (Meyrick, 1891)
Forest Carpet
 (previously known as Scordylia leucophragma)
LARENTIINAE,   GEOMETRIDAE,   GEOMETROIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Chaetolopha leucophragma
(Photo: courtesy of Dr David G. Hewitt, Melbourne, Victoria)

The Caterpillars of this species are thought to feed on

  • Ferns ( POLYPODIOPHYTA ).

    Chaetolopha leucophragma
    (Photo: courtesy of Olga Schmidt)

    The adult moth has brown wings, with three pale zigzag lines across each forewing, and a white dash near each wingtip. The hindwings are paler brown, and have a zigzag dark line across each one.

    The species has been found in:

  • Queensland,
  • New South Wales,
  • Victoria, and
  • Tasmania.

    Further reading:

    Ian F.B. Common,
    Moths of Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1990, pl. 11.35, pp. 67, 377.

    Peter Marriott,
    Moths of Victoria: Part 3,
    Waves & Carpets - GEOMETROIDEA (C)    ,
    Entomological Society of Victoria, 2011, pp. 12-13, 34-35.

    Edward Meyrick,
    Revision of Australian Lepidoptera. V,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Series 2, Volume 5, Part 4 (1890), p. 818, No. 29.

    Olga Schmidt,
    A revision of the genus Chaetolopha Warren (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Larentiinae) with a description of Parachaetolopha, gen. nov.,
    Invertebrate Systematics, Volume 16 (2002), pp. 703-733.

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    (updated 26 February 2013, 31 March 2021)