| Vicissata Carpet (erroneously known as Chrysolarentia viscissata) XANTHORHOINI, LARENTIINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Dr David G. Hewitt, Yarra Ranges, Victoria)
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| Vicissata Carpet (erroneously known as Chrysolarentia viscissata) XANTHORHOINI, LARENTIINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Dr David G. Hewitt, Yarra Ranges, Victoria)
The Caterpillar of this species is striped with various shades of brown. It feeds nocternally on a variety of herbaceous plants, resting on the ground under leaves by day.
Pupation occurs in a flimsy cocoon among the leaf litter.
The adult moth has brown forewings each with various pale marking including a broad white transverse band. The hind wings are yellow, with brown markings along the hind margins. The wingspan is about 3 cms.
The moths tend to rest facing downwards.
The eggs are ovoid, and initially off-white, turning yellow as hatching approaches. They are laid on the ground near a foodplant.
This species has been taken in
Further reading:
Achille Guenée,
Uranides et Phalénites,
in Boisduval & Guenée:
Histoire naturelle des insectes; spécies général des lépidoptères,
Volume 9, Part 10 (1857), p. 421, No. 1584, and also
Plate 9, fig. 5.
Peter B. McQuillan, Jan A. Forrest, David Keane, & Roger Grund,
Caterpillars, moths, and their plants of Southern Australia,
Butterfly Conservation South Australia Inc., Adelaide (2019), p. 113.
(listed as Chrysolarentia viscissata)
Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria: Part 3,
Waves & Carpets - GEOMETROIDEA (C),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2011, pp. 14-15.
 caterpillar |  butterflies |  Lepidoptera |  moths |  caterpillar |
(updated 17 December 2011, 6 February 2024)
