Funereal Carpet (previously known as Camptogramma mortuata) LARENTIINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria: Part 3)
The adult moth of this species is brown with variable patterns. The wing margins are scalloped. The moth has a wingspan of about 2.5 cms.
This species has been found in
This species is very similar to Eucymatoge scotodes. Their differences are unclear.
Further reading:
Achille Guenée,
Uranides et Phalénites,
in Boisduval & Guenée:
Histoire naturelle des insectes; spécies général des lépidoptères,
Volume 9, Part 10 (1857), p. 428, No. 1597.
Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria: Part 3,
Waves & Carpets - GEOMETROIDEA (C),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2011, pp. 34-35.
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(written 10 September 2013)