Large Radiating Carpet (previously known as Euphyia polycarpa) XANTHORHOINI, LARENTIINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (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.
This is a high plains species, specimens being taken by day on various mountains between January and March in
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, 6 September 2013, 24 May 2019, 24 March 2021)