CALPINAE in Australia
Underwings and Fruit Sucking Moths
including OPHIDERINAE & PANGRAPTINAE
EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

  
Don Herbison-Evans,
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

CALPINAE

caterpillars
  
CALPINAE

pupae
  
CALPINAE

moths
  
CALPINAE

undersides
  
CALPINAE

forewings

The Caterpillars of CALPINAE are usually smooth, lacking obvious hairs. Many have one or more pairs of prolegs missing, and so move in a looping fashion.

Some of the adult moths of CALPINAE have brightly coloured hind wings which are normally covered (the "underwings"). The CALPINAE moths also include a number pests which puncture fruit in order to feed on the juice.

CALPINAE is a controversial family, and different taxonomists include differing genera within it. Nielsen et al. included this group of species in the subfamily CATOCALINAE, while other taxonomists treat versions of it as a subfamily of EREBIDAE. Here mainly for computational convenience we include a version of it as a subfamily of the EREBIDAE.

The 25 named Australian species in CALPINAE are:

Calyptra minuticornis : Vampire Moth

Epicyrtica bryistis
Epicyrtica docima : Beautiful Double-spot
Epicyrtica hippolopha : Green Double-spot
Epicyrtica lathridia : Secretive Double-spot
Epicyrtica leucostigma : Dark-crescent Double-spot
Epicyrtica lichenophora : Lichen Double-spot
Epicyrtica melanops : Melanic Double-spot
Epicyrtica metallica
Epicyrtica pamprepta

Eucatephia dinawa

Eudocima aurantia : Fruit Sucking Moth
Eudocima cocalus : Cocalus Fruit Piercing Moth
Eudocima fullonia : Fruit Piercing Moth
Eudocima iridescens
Eudocima jordani
Eudocima materna : Dot Underwing
Eudocima salaminia : Green Fruit-piercing Moth

Euryschema tricycla

Oraesia argyrosigna
Oraesia emarginata : Fruit Piercing Moth

Pangrapta adoxopis

Parapadna zonophora

Plusiodonta arctipennis : Hooked Elegant
Plusiodonta coelonota

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(written 25 July 2015, updated 12 September 2023)