Triangle Forest Carpet (previously known as Scordylia oxyntis) LARENTIINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Laura Levens, Victoria)
The caterpillars of this species are thought to feed on
The adult moth has pale brown wings, with a large dark brown triangle outlined in white on each forewing. The moth is unusual for its family GEOMETRIDAE in keeping its hindwings covered by the forewings in its natural posture. The wingspan is about 3 cms.
The species is found in :
Further reading:
Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria: Part 3,
Waves & Carpets - GEOMETROIDEA (C),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2011, pp. 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), pp. 817-818, No. 28.
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 4 September 2013)