Broad-headed Moth (previously known as Maurilia iocephala) CHLOEPHORINAE, NOLIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA, | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Harold McQueen, Goodna, Queensland)
This Caterpillar is pale patchy grey-brown with dorsal humps on the thorax, and on the third and last abdominal segments.
The caterpillar has been found feeding on trees in STERCULIACEAE, including:
The caterpillar pupates in a stiff brown cocoon with a hump around the thorax area. The cocoon is formed on a twig of its foodplant, and has a length of about 1.5 cms.
The adult moths of this species have brown forewings each with a number of dark zigzag lines.
The hindwings are fawn, darkening toward the margin. The wingspan is about 2.5 cms.
The underside is featureless.
The species has been found in :
Further reading :
Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria - Part 2,
Tiger Moths and Allies - NOCTUOIDEA (A),
Entomological Society of Victoria,
2009, pp. 32-33.
A. Jefferis Turner,
New genera and species of Lepidoptera belonging to the family Noctuidae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 27 (1902), p. 94.
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(updated 14 April 2013, 28 August 2018, 29 October 2020, 3 April 2022)