| Longan Leaf Eating Looper (previously known as Rectipalpula clytia) CALPINAE, EREBIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, Kuranda, Queensland)
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| Longan Leaf Eating Looper (previously known as Rectipalpula clytia) CALPINAE, EREBIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, Kuranda, Queensland)
These Caterpillars are green with narrow yellow stripes. The prolegs are reduced, and the caterpillar moves in a looper fashion. The caterpillars have been found feeding on the foliage and flowers of:
The caterpillars pupate in a shelter constructed from a leaf by cutting a piece and folding it over.
The adult moths of this species are pale brown, with a number of darker markings on each wing. The forewings each have a prominent small black circle near the base. The hindwings each have a broad dark band along the costa. The wingspan is about 6 cms.
The moth is unusual in having a normal resting position with its wings held in parasagittal planes, like many butterlies.
The species is found in
and in Australia in
Further reading:
N. Boontam and Paitoon Leksawasdi,
Life history of longan leaf eater, Oxyodes scrobiculata F.
(Noctuidae : Lepidoptera),
18th National Science and Technology Conference,
Sirikit National Conference Center, Bangkok, 27-29 October 1992.
Johan Christian Fabricius,
Historiae Natvralis Favtoribvs,
Systema Entomologiae,
Flensburgi et Lipsiae (1775), p. 592, No. 9.
Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 147.
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(updated 18 August 2012, 25 March 2016)