Dark-patch Carpet XANTHORHOINI, LARENTIINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
male
(Photo: courtesy of
Donald Hobern, Aranda, Australian Capital Territory)
The adult moth of this species has a complex fawn pattern on the wings. The moths have a wing span of about 2 cms.
The species occurs in
Further reading:
Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria: Part 3,
Waves & Carpets - GEOMETROIDEA (C),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2011, pp. 24-25.
Edward Meyrick,
Revision of Australian Lepidoptera IV,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 2, Volume 5, Part 4 (1890), p. 869, No. 83.
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(updated 24 september 2011, 30 May 2018)