(possible synonym : Cyclophragma leucosticta Grünberg, 1923)
LASIOCAMPINAE , LASIOCAMPIDAE
Don Herbison-Evans (
donherbisonevans@yahoo.com ),
and
Graeme Cocks
&
Stella Crossley
(Photo: copyright
Graeme Cocks, Townsville)
Don Herbison-Evans (
donherbisonevans@yahoo.com ),
and
Graeme Cocks
&
Stella Crossley
(Photo: copyright
Graeme Cocks, Townsville)
This is a brown Caterpillar with sparse stiff dark hairs emanating from warts along the back. It has denser hairs like a skirt along each side. It was found was decending from :
although it was not observed feeding.
The pupa is formed in a brown cocoon spun between joined leaves.
The moths are brown with a tiny white spot near the centre, and some faint spotted and wiggly submarginal lines across each forewing.
The abdomen of the male is banded in black and yellow, but that of the female is plain brown. The moths have a wingspan up to 5 cms.
When the female moth emerges from the cocoon, she waits there for her wings to dry and to be fertilised by a male. Fertilised or not, she starts laying eggs on the cocoon and anywhere nearby.
The species is found in
Further reading :
Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, pl. 12.17, p. 390.
A. Peter Mackey,
Growth and bioenergetics of the moth
Cyclophragma leucosticta Grünberg,
Oecologia,
Volume 32, Number 3 (January, 1978), pp. 367-376.
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(updated 1 July 2009)