| Eastern Euloxia (one synonym : Iodis intacta Walker, 1861) GEOMETRINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Cathy Byrne & Stella Crossley |
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| Eastern Euloxia (one synonym : Iodis intacta Walker, 1861) GEOMETRINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Cathy Byrne & Stella Crossley |
(Photo: copyright Cathy Byrne)
This Caterpillar initially is brown. Its head has 3 short horns with red tips. The caterpillar only has 2 pairs of prolegs, one pair on each of the last two abdominal segments. The caterpillar feeds at night, and rests by day on its prolegs, looking like a straight twig.
Later instars are green, but still have red-tipped horns on the head.
The pupa is long and thin, and brown.
The adult moth has green forewings each with a diagonal white stripe, and white hindwings. The wingspan is up to 3 cms.
The eggs are yellow squashed ovals.
The species is found in
Further reading :
Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, p. 374.
Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria: Part 4,
Emeralds and Allies - GEOMETROIDEA (B),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2012, pp. 32-33.
Achille Guenée,
Uranides et Phalénites,
in Boisduval & Guenée:
Histoire naturelle des insectes; spécies général des lépidoptères,
Volume 9, Part 9 (1857), pp. 354-355, No. 552.
 caterpillar |  butterflies |  Lepidoptera |  moths |  caterpillar |
(updated 20 July 2010, 26 April 2014)