Hypobapta percomptaria

Hypobapta percomptaria (Guenée, 1857)
(previously known as : Hypochroma percomptaria)
GEOMETRINAE , GEOMETRIDAE

(Photo: copyright Cathy Young)

This Caterpillar is initially brown with a red head and tail. Later it becomes green with a conical head.

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The caterpillars feed on :

pupa
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The pupa is mottled brown.

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The adult moth is grey-brown with wavy lines. The undersides have a rosy suffusion. The wingspan is about 5 cms.

The eggs are smooth and somewhat conical ovals. They are laid in irregular clusters.

eggs magnified
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Initially they are white, and turn purplish as hatching approaches.

eggs magnified, nearing hatching
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The species has been found in

Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1990, pl. 26.13, fig. 37.5, p. 371.

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.

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(updated 9 July 2011)