Similar Carpet (previously known as Euphyia persimilis) XANTHORHOINI, LARENTIINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
John Bundock,
Namadgi National Park, Australian Capital Territory)
The adult moths of this species have brown forewings, often each having two or three indistinct pale wavy transverse bands. The hindwings are yellowish-brown each with some broken brown bands at the tornus. The undersides of all four wings show fainter patterns of the upper surfaces. The moths have a wing span of about 3 cms.
Specimens of the adult moth of this species have been taken in mountains of
Further reading:
Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria: Part 3,
Waves & Carpets - GEOMETROIDEA (C),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2011, pp. 16-17.
A. Jefferis Turner,
Studies in Australian Lepidoptera,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 50 (1926), pp. 122-123.
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(written 6 September 2013, updated 10 May 2018, 24 March 2021)