Plesia Carpet (previously known as Hydriomena plesia) XANTHORHOINI, LARENTIINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
male
(Photo: courtesy of Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria: Part 3)
The adult moth of this species is brown with light and dark bands across the wings. The moths have a wing span of about 2 cms.
The species has been found in:
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. 20-21.
A. Jefferis Turner,
Revision of Australian Lepidoptera: Family Geometridae,
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria,
Volume 16 (1904), p. 265, No. 100.
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(updated 17 April 2010, 11 May 2018, 8 September 2021)