| CALPINAE, EREBIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
Photo: courtesy of Peter Chew,
Brisbane, Queensland)
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| CALPINAE, EREBIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
Photo: courtesy of Peter Chew,
Brisbane, Queensland)
This Caterpillar is brown with two red knobs on its tail, and has a black head with white markings. The caterpillar has reduced prolegs, so walks in looper style. It has been found feeding on
The caterpillar pupates between leaves of its foodplant joined with silk.
This adult moth has forewings that have a pattern including brown sections delineated by zigzag black lines. The hindwings are black, each with an hind unbroken white band and a white spot on the margin and another white spot near the tornus. The wingspan can reach 7 cms.
The species is found on islands in south east Asia, including
as well as in Australia in
Further reading :
Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, p. 453.
George F. Hampson,
Catalogue of the Noctuidae in the Collection of the British Museum,
Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum,
Volume 12 (1913), pp. 498-499, No. 7623, Fig. 119.
Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 124.
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(updated 20 September 2011, 24 October 2017)