| Variable Carpet (previously known as Hydriomena trygodes) XANTHORHOINI, LARENTIINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria: Part 3)
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| Variable Carpet (previously known as Hydriomena trygodes) XANTHORHOINI, LARENTIINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria: Part 3)
The adult moth of this species is very variable. One form has brown forewings with a broad dark band across each one. The hindwings are brown, each with some narrow brown bands across each one.
The adult moths are brown with the wings crossed by a characteristic pattern of darker wiggly lines and bands. The moths seem to have two forms: a yellow form with yellower wings, and a dark form that has darker wings. Some authors think that the dark form is the separate species: Chrysolarentia phaulophanes. The moths have a wing span of about 2 cms.
This species has been found in the southern half of Australia, including
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. 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), pp. 851-852, No. 65.
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(written 7 September 2013, updated 14 November 2025)