| Orange-hooded Crest-moth (previously known as Criomacha eribola) DIPTYCHINI, ENNOMINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Cathy Byrne & Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of Donald Hobern,
Aranda, Australian Capital Territory)
These caterpillars are green with black-circled white spots.
There are a pair of pinkish fleshy horns behind the head and a smaller pair on the tail. The true legs are pink. The head looks as though it has a pink nose, and big white eyes with black dots.
The adult moths of this species have forewings that are brown, each with two dark vague transverse zig-zag lines, and some orange veins. The hindwings are off-white with broad brown margins. The head and thorax are orange.
At rest: the moths wrap their wings around the body, and look remarkably like a twig. The wingspan is about 5 cms.
The species has been found in:
The eggs are oval and minutely pitted.
Further reading :
Edward Guest,
A classified list of Geometrina found around Balhannah, with notes on species,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 9 (1887), p. 139, No. 19.
Marilyn Hewish,
Moths of Victoria: Part 5 - Satin Moths and Allies - GEOMETROIDEA (A),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2014, pp. 34-35.
Catherine J. Young,
Characterisation of the Australian Nacophorini and a Phylogeny for the
Geometridae from Molecular and Morphological Data,
Ph.D. thesis, University of Tasmania, 2003.
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(updated 18 June 2011, 9 April 2019, 14 February 2021)