![]() | Neat Pinara LASIOCAMPINAE, LASIOCAMPIDAE, BOMBYCOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Ian Common, from
Moths of Australia)
This Caterpillar is brown and hairy, with two narrow pencils of black hairs projecting from the thorax. It feeds on the foliage of :
The adult male and female moths are quite different in appearance. The male moth has forewings with a bold pattern of light and dark brown. The hindwings are dark brown with a triangular orange patch on the margin. The male has a wingspan of about 4 cms.
The female is off-white, with a subterminal arc of black-edged red dots on each forewing. In dead specimens, the red fades to grey. The female has a wingspan of about 6 cms.
The species is found in eastern Australia, including:
Further reading :
Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, Pls. 28.1, 28.2, p. 390.
Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria - Part 1,
Silk Moths and Allies - BOMBYCOIDEA,
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2008, pp. 14-15.
Francis Walker,
Lepidoptera Heterocera,
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,
Part 3 (1855), pp. 761-2, No. 1.
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(updated 6 April 2013, 13 October 2019, 15 October 2020)