Jordan's Fruit Piercing Moth (previously known as Ophideres jordani) CALPINAE, EREBIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
male
Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, from
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art
The Caterpillars of this species feed on:
The male moths of this species have brown forewings with a subtle pattern, and bright orange hindwings that have broad black margins and a large black spot in the middle. The wings have scalloped margins, and the forewings have a concave hind margin. The abdomen is orange. The wingspan is about 7 cms.
The females are similar except they have a broad yellow diagonal band across each forwing.
The adult moths are a commercial pest: damaging fruit by piercing the skin to suck juice.
Control of the moths may be possible using:
The moth has been found in
and in Australia in
Further reading :
Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, pl. 20.4, p. 449.
William Jacob Holland,
The Lepidoptera of Buru: Part II: Heterocera,
Novitates Zoologicae,
Volume 7 (1900) p. 570, No. 257.
Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 137.
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(updated 17 October 2011, 10 August 2021)