These caterpillars are green with black-circled white spots.

(Photo: courtesy of Donald Hobern, Aranda)

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.

(Photo: copyright Cathy Young)

The adult moths of this species have forewings that are white with a scattered grey-brown pattern. At rest they wrap their wings around the body.

(Photo: copyright Cathy Young)

The eggs are oval and minutely pitted.

eggs, highly magnified
(Photo: copyright Cathy Young)

The species has been found in:

Victoria.

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Further reading :

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)