Chrysolarentia polyxantha (Meyrick, 1891)
Yellow Carpet
(previously known as Hydriomena polyxantha)
XANTHORHOINI,   LARENTIINAE,   GEOMETRIDAE,   GEOMETROIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(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 moth frequently rest facing downwards.

This species has been caught in

  • New South Wales,
  • Australian Capital Territory, and
  • Victoria.


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


    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, 14 February 2018, 9 March 2020)