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The Caterpillars of CATOCALINI 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 CATOCALINI have eye-shaped markings on the wings (the "owlets").
Some taxonomists list this group of species as a family CATOCALIDAE, or as a subfamily of NOCTUIDAE, or as a tribe CATOCALINI in EREBINAE, but here we include it as a subfamily of the EREBIDAE.
Some common named Australian species in CATOCALINI are:
Acantholipes juba
Acantholipes trajecta
Alapadna pauropis : Variable Spot-wing
Alophosoma emmelopis Bicoloured Crest
Alophosoma hypoxantha
Alophosoma syngenes
Avatha discolor
Avatha novoguineana
Avatha subumbra
Bastilla absentimacula
Bastilla arctotaenia
Bastilla copidiphora
Bastilla dicoela
Bastilla serratilinea
Buzara frontinus
Buzara infractafinis
Buzara latizona
Buzara propyrrha
Crioa acronyctoides
Crioa aroa
Crioa hades
Crioa niphobleta
Cyclodes spectans : Owl Moth
Dasypodia cymatodes : Northern Old Lady Moth
Dasypodia selenophora : Southern Old Lady Moth
Delgamma pangonia : Strawberry Cutworm
Donuca castalia
Donuca lanipes
Donuca memorabilis
Donuca orbigera
Donuca rubropicta
Donuca spectabilis : White-spotted Owl-Moth
Donuca xanthopyga
Dysgonia constricta
Dysgonia curvisecta
Dysgonia hamatilis
Dysgonia monogona
Dysgonia senex
Dysgonia solomonensis
Erebus crepuscularis
Erebus macfarlanei
Erebus nyctaculis
Erebus terminitincta
Ericeia eriophora
Ericeia goniosema
Ericeia inangulata
Ericeia pertendens
Ericeia plaesiodes
Ericeia sobria
Ericeia subsignata : Spotted Ericeia
Eudesmeola lawsoni : Lawson's Night Moth
Grammodes cooma
Grammodes geometrica
Grammodes justa : Plain Box-Owlet
Grammodes occulta
Grammodes ocellata : Large-eyed Box-Owlet
Grammodes oculata
Grammodes oculicola : Small-eyed Box-Owlet
Grammodes pulcherrima : Comely Box-Owlet
Grammodes quaesita
Grammodes stolida
Homodes bracteigutta
Homodes crocea
Homodes iomolybda
Hulodes caranea
Hulodes drylla
Madope auferens : Black-dot Moth
Mocis alterna : Bean Looper
Mocis frugalis : Sugarcane Looper
Mocis trifasciata
Niguza anisogramma
Niguza eucesta
Niguza oculita
Niguza spiramioides
Pandesma quenavadi
Pandesma submurina : Pale Migrant
Pantydia canescens : Oblique-lined Pantydia
Pantydia capistrata
Pantydia diemeni : Gap-lined Pantydia
Pericyma cruegeri : Poinciana Looper
Platyja cyanopasta
Platyja exequialis
Platyja umminia
Serrodes campana
Serrodes mediopallens
Sophta aeluropis
Sophta concavata : Varied Hookwing
Sophta hapalopis : Two-toned Hookwing
Sophta poecilota
Speiredonia mutabilis : Plain Cloak Moth
Speiredonia obscura
Speiredonia spectans : Granny's Cloak Moth
Sympis parkeri
Sympis rufibasis
Tathorhynchus fallax : Double-spotted Snout
Trigonodes cephise
Trigonodes hyppasia : Triangle Owlet
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(updated 1 November 2014, 21 January 2017, 29 May 2019, 10 February 2020, 17 June 2021, 6 April 2022)