Chrysolarentia plesia (Turner, 1904)
Plesia Carpet
 (previously known as Hydriomena plesia)
XANTHORHOINI,   LARENTIINAE,   GEOMETRIDAE,   GEOMETROIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Chrysolarentia plesia
male
(Photo: courtesy of Peter Marriott, Moths of Victoria: Part 3)

The adult moth of this species is brown with light and dark bands across the wings. The moths have a wing span of about 2 cms.

Chrysolarentia plesia
female
(Photo: courtesy of Peter Marriott, Moths of Victoria: Part 3)

The species has been found in:

  • Victoria, and
  • Western Australia.

    This species may have been placed in the wrong genus.

    Further reading :

    Peter Marriott,
    Moths of Victoria: Part 3,
    Waves & Carpets - GEOMETROIDEA (C)    ,
    Entomological Society of Victoria, 2011, pp. 20-21.

    A. Jefferis Turner,
    Revision of Australian Lepidoptera: Family Geometridae,
    Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria,
    Volume 16 (1904), p. 265, No. 100.

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    (updated 17 April 2010, 11 May 2018, 8 September 2021)