Ken Harris
Morwell National Park |
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ANTHELIDAE
ARCTIIDAE
CARPOSINIDAE,
COSMOPTERIGIDAE,
CRAMBIDAE
DEPRESSARIIDAE,
GEOMETRIDAE
HEPIALIDAE
HESPERIIDAE
LASIOCAMPIDAE
LYMANTRIINAE
NOCTUIDAE
NYMPHALIDAE
OECOPHORIDAE
PSYCHIDAE
PTEROPHORIDAE
PYRALIDAE
SPHINGIDAE
TINEIDAE
TORTRICIDAE
11: I came home from a walk in
Morwell National Park on
8th April 2002 and found the caterpillar on the back of my neck.
Its hairs were somewhat irritating.
I had no idea what plant it was on, but the trees
where I had been walking were mostly Eucalypts and Blackwoods.
I placed it in a jar with some Eucalypt leaves and
some Blackwood leaves.
It accepted the Blackwood ( Acacia melanoxylum ) leaves.
I kept it supplied with leaves for 3-4 weeks,
which it ate regularly.
The caterpillar grew to about 4 to 5 cm long.
It then began to weave a cocoon, which was very hairy,
as if the hairs from the outside of the caterpillar had been
incorporated in the cocoon.
It pupated inside the cocoon, which was attached to a
Blackwood stem and leaves.
The pupa inside was a dark chocolate colour.
Probably Anthela nicothoe
12: number 11 again
probably
Anthela nicothoe
While exploring the top of Mt. Buffalo,, one of the Latrobe Valley Field Nats
discovered this beautiful caterpillar in a pea shrub (Bossiaea foliosa)
underneath snow gums (Eucalyptus pauciflora).
Chenuala heliaspis
I have just discovered that we found a second specimen
of the same caterpillar two days later at another spot
on top of Mt. Buffalo
It would suggest a liking for the Alpine environment..
Chenuala heliaspis
Larva Pterolocera rubescens
Cocoon Pterolocera rubescens
Pupa Pterolocera rubescens
Female Pterolocera rubescens
pupa and cocoon of
Ardices glatignyi
15: Thallarcha partita,
imperfect specimen,
found on the ground on a track in
Morwell National Park,
16 October 2004
Carposina latebrosa,
Mallacoota, Victoria
Leptozestis harmosta,
Genoa, Victoria
Eurybela trophoessa
29:
Hednota grammellus
28:
Hednota opulentellus,
36:
Deuterarcha xanthomela
Metasia capnochroa
9:
Tipanaea patulella,
photographed in a salt marsh
in the Gippsland Lakes in Victoria,
20 November 1993.
Eutorna leptographa,
Alpine National Park, Victoria
0: unidentified caterpillar
possibly Oenochroma species
photographed on Hakea species
(probably Hakea lissosperma)
in Tasmania, 30 January 1982
1: unidentified moth,
possibly Scioglyptis species
ENNOMINAE,
photographed at Churchill, Victoria, 9 March 2002.
26:
Epidesmia chilonaria
27:
Phelotis cognata
16:
Ectropis excursaria ?
31:
Chrysolarentia insulsata
34:
Chrysolarentia lucidulata,
Scopula rubraria
44:
Dichromodes stilbiata
Monoctenia falernaria
30:
Epyaxa hyperythra,
Oxyphanes thiobapta
Apodasmia rufonigraria
20:
Chrysiphona ocultaria,
21:
Chrysiphona ocultaria,
underside
22:
Oenochroma vinaria,
caterpillar
Chloroclystis metallospora
male
Chloroclystis metallospora
female
25:
Oxycanus antipoda
10:
Trictena atripalpis
photographed in Churchill on 4 May 1993.
13:
Oxycanus dirempta
14:
Abantiades hyalinatus
17:
Abantiades labyrinthicus
33:
Abantiades labyrinthicus
35:
Hesperilla ornata,
23:
Ocybadistes walkeri
24:
Genduara acedesta
7:
Iropoca rotundata,
photographed in the Victorian Alps, 5 November 1994.
5:
Cruria synopla,
photographed in Sydney, 19 January 1988.
8:
Persectania ewingii,
photographed on the Bogong High Plains, 8 November 1998.
18:
Persectania ewingii
19:
Persectania ewingii
6:
Fodina ostorius,
photographed at the Den of Nargun Reserve
on the MacAlister River, Victoria, 13 January 2001.
Praxis porphyretica
32: larva of
Vanessa itea
40:
Geitoneura minyas
41:
Catacometes hemiscia
42:
Drepanocera microstigmata
Garrha limbata
42:
Myrascia bracteatella
43:
Periallactis monostropha
Pholeutis neolecta
Stathmopoda cephalaea
2: Lepidoscia cataphracta,
live moth, length 1.5 cms,
photographed on a stem of Carex appressa,
Morwell National Park, 4 November 2001
39:
Lepidoscia guildingi
Stenoptilia phaeonephes
37:
Gauna aegusalis
3:
Agrius convolvuli
on Morning glory Ipomoea indica
in Churchill, Victoria, 27 December 1989
4:
Agrius convolvuli
caterpillar also on Ipomoea indica
photographed in Churchill, Victoria, 26 March 1989,
Mesopherna palustris
Coeloptera vulpina
Merophyas therina
38:
Oxysemaphora notialis
Technitis oriarcha
During a field naturalists camp-out, I was light-trapping for moths
in Mt. Buffalo National Park and on the evening of 2/2/2018 I was set up
on the cricket oval on the top of Mt. Buffalo close to the Chalet. A
moth that was new to me came to the light and I eventually found it
under the name Tortrix oriarcha. Further research shows that the ALA and
Faunal Directory use the name Technitis oriarcha.
YPONOMEUTIDAE
 Zelleria cyanoleuca |
and the following Caterpillar food plants :
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(updated 15 March 2005, 22 June 2024)