| Speckled Footman (previously known as Clisobara catocalina) LITHOSIINI, ARCTIINAE, EREBIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
These Caterpillars feed on :
The adult moth has grey patterned forewings each with a small white spot near the apex. The hindwings are yellow, each with a dark brown mark at the apex, and a larger brown mark at the tornus. The wingspan is about 2.5 cms.
The species has been found in
Further reading :
Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria - Part 2,
Tiger Moths and Allies - NOCTUOIDEA (A),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2009, pp. 22-23.
Francis Walker,
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Heterocera,
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,
Part 31, Supplement 1 (1865), p. 269.
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(updated 7 May 2013)