EREBINAE in Australia
excluding CATOCALINI
EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA
  
Don Herbison-Evans,
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

EREBINAE

eggs
  
EREBINAE

caterpillars
  
EREBINAE

pupae
  
EREBINAE

moths
  
EREBINAE

undersides
  
EREBINAE

forewings

The Caterpillars of EREBINAE are usually smooth, lacking obvious hairs. Many have one or more pairs of prolegs missing, and so move in a looping fashion.

Some common named Australian species in EREBINAE are:

Acantholipes juba
Acantholipes trajecta

  • Acantholipes zuboides

    Achaea argilla : Plain Looper
    Achaea eusciasta
    Achaea janata : Croton Caterpillar or Castor Oil Looper
    Achaea mercatoria
    Achaea serva

    Anisoneura aluco

    Avatha discolor
    Avatha novoguineana
    Avatha subumbra

    Bastilla absentimacula
    Bastilla arctotaenia
    Bastilla copidiphora
    Bastilla dicoela
    Bastilla serratilinea

    Buzara frontinus
    Buzara infractafinis
    Buzara latizona
    Buzara propyrrha

    Chalciope alcyona

    Dermaleipa microrrhoea

    Dysgonia constricta
    Dysgonia curvisecta
    Dysgonia hamatilis
    Dysgonia monogona
    Dysgonia senex
    Dysgonia solomonensis

    Ercheia dubia
    Ercheia ekeikei

    Erebus crepuscularis
    Erebus macfarlanei
    Erebus nyctaculis
    Erebus terminitincta

    Ericeia eriophora
    Ericeia goniosema
    Ericeia inangulata
    Ericeia pertendens
    Ericeia plaesiodes
    Ericeia sobria
    Ericeia subsignata : Spotted Ericeia

    Erygia apicalis

    Fodina ostorius

    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

    Hulodes caranea
    Hulodes drylla

    Mocis alterna : Bean Looper
    Mocis frugalis : Sugarcane Looper
    Mocis trifasciata

  • Ophisma gravata

    Ophiusa coronata
    Ophiusa costiplaga
    Ophiusa discriminans
    Ophiusa disjungens
    Ophiusa hituense

  • Ophiusa novenaria
    Ophiusa parcemacula
    Ophiusa tirhaca
  • Ophiusa trapezium

    Oxyodes scrobiculata
    Oxyodes tricolor

  • Pandesma partita
    Pandesma quenavadi
    Pandesma submurina : Pale Migrant

    Pantydia canescens : Oblique-lined Pantydia
    Pantydia capistrata
    Pantydia diemeni : Gap-lined Pantydia

  • Pantydia metaphaea
    Pantydia metaspila
    Pantydia sparsa : Plain Pantydia

    Parallelia calefaciens

    Pericyma cruegeri : Poinciana Looper

    Platyja cyanopasta
    Platyja exequialis
    Platyja umminia

    Polydesma boarmoides

    Praxis aterrima
    Praxis difficilis
    Praxis dirigens
    Praxis edwardsii

  • Praxis limbatis
    Praxis marmarinopa
    Praxis pandesma
    Praxis porphyretica

    Serrodes campana
    Serrodes mediopallens

    Spirama recessa

    Sympis parkeri
    Sympis rufibasis

    Thyas miniacea

    Trigonodes cephise
    Trigonodes hyppasia : Triangle Owlet

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    (updated 1 November 2014, 17 October 2023)