| Yellow Carpet (previously known as Hydriomena polyxantha) XANTHORHOINI, LARENTIINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
The adult moth of this species has yellow forewings with dark bands across them. The hindwings are pale yellow with suffused brown markings. The wing margin fringes are dark, and sometimes chequered. It has a wing span of about 2 cms. The moths frequently rest facing downwards.
This species has been caught in
Further reading:
Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria: Part 3,
Waves & Carpets - GEOMETROIDEA (C),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2011, pp. 18-19.
Edward Meyrick,
Revision of Australian Lepidoptera V,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 2, Volume 5, Part 4 (1890), p. 847, No. 41.
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(updated 6 September 2013, 17 January 2025)