Chrysolarentia polycarpa (Meyrick, 1891) Large Radiating Carpet (previously known as Euphyia polycarpa) XANTHORHOINI,   LARENTIINAE,   GEOMETRIDAE,   GEOMETROIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Peter Marriott & Stella Crossley

(Photo: courtesy of Elaine McDonald, Hartz Mountains, Tasmania)

The adult moth of this species has brown forewings with irregular pale bands across them. The hindwings are orange with brown markings. The moth has a wing span of about 2.5 cms.

(Specimen: courtesy of the Macleay Collection, Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney)

This is a high plains species, specimens being found by day on various mountains between January and March in

Tasmania.

showing underside
(Photo: courtesy of Peter Marriott, Moths of Victoria: Part 3)

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Further reading:

Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria: Part 3,
Waves & Carpets - GEOMETROIDEA (C),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2011, pp. 14-15.

Edward Meyrick,
Revision of Australian Lepidoptera V,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 2, Volume 5, Part 4 (1890), pp. 841-842, No. 52.

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(updated 11 February 2009, 23 November 2025)