| Dark Carpet (previously known as Dasyuris phaeoxutha) XANTHORHOINI, LARENTIINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria: Part 3)
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| Dark Carpet (previously known as Dasyuris phaeoxutha) XANTHORHOINI, LARENTIINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria: Part 3)
The adult moths of this species have brown forewings, often each having two or three indistinct pale zig-zag transverse bands. The hindwings are similar but less distincly marked. The moths have a wing span of about 2.5 cms.
Specimens of the adult moth of this species have been taken in mountainous areas of
Further reading:
Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria: Part 3,
Waves & Carpets - GEOMETROIDEA (C),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2011, pp. 16-17.
A. Jefferis Turner,
Studies in Australian Lepidoptera,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 50 (1926), pp. 123-124.
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(written 6 September 2013, updated 11 May 2018, 24 March 2021)