| (erroneously known as Odonestis elisabetha) ANTHELINAE, ANTHELIDAE, BOMBYCOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
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| (erroneously known as Odonestis elisabetha) ANTHELINAE, ANTHELIDAE, BOMBYCOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
The Caterpillars of this species feed on Australian native species of
The caterpillars pupate in the soil inside a tough silk cocoon.
The male adult moths have fully developed wings and can fly. Their wings are pale to pinkish brown with a submarginal arc of dark dots on each wing. The wingspan is about 4 cms. The females are flightless as they only have vestigial wings.
The eggs are laid in clusters on the ground.
The species has been found in
Further reading :
Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, p. 396.
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. 97.
Adam White,
in George Grey:
Notes on some insects from King George's Sound, collected and presented
to the British Museum by Captain George Grey,
Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-west and Western Australia,
during the years 1837, 38, and 39,
Volume 2 (1841), p. 478.
 caterpillar |  butterflies |  Lepidoptera |  moths |  caterpillar |
(updated 21 August 2004, 16 April 2018, 12 October 2019)
