| Southern Grey (previously known as Hypochroma percomptaria) GEOMETRINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Cathy Byrne & Stella Crossley |
(Photo: copyright Cathy Byrne)
|
| Southern Grey (previously known as Hypochroma percomptaria) GEOMETRINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Cathy Byrne & Stella Crossley |
(Photo: copyright Cathy Byrne)
This Caterpillar is initially brown with a red head and tail. Later it becomes green with a conical head.
The caterpillars feed on :
The pupa is mottled brown.
The adult moth is grey-brown with wavy lines. The undersides have a rosy suffusion, and each wing has a broad black submarginal band. The wingspan is about 4 cms.
The eggs are smooth and somewhat conical ovals. They are laid in irregular clusters.
Initially the eggs are white, and turn purplish as hatching approaches.
The species has only been found in
Specimens labelled as this species from before 2009 are a species complex now known as Hypobapta tachyhalotaria.
Further reading :
Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, pl. 26.13, fig. 37.5, p. 371.
Achille Guenée,
Uranides et Phalénites,
in Boisduval & Guenée:
Histoire naturelle des insectes; spécies général des lépidoptères,
Volume 9, Part 9 (1857), pp. 280-281, No. 448, and also
Plate 6, fig. 4.
Axel Hausmann, Manfred Sommerer, Rodolphe Rougerie & Paul Hebert,
Hypobapta tachyhalotaria spec. nov. from Tasmania –
an example of a new species revealed by DNA barcoding,
Spixiana,
Volume 32, Number 2 (November 2009), pp. 161-166.
Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria: Part 4,
Emeralds and Allies - GEOMETROIDEA (B),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2012, pp. 30-31.
 caterpillar |  butterflies |  Lepidoptera |  moths |  caterpillar |
(updated 28 June 2013, 21 June 2018, 3 June 2019, 21 April 2021)