![]() | Cowled Rough-head (erroneously: Hyleora capucina) NOTODONTINAE, NOTODONTIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@outlook.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria: Part 2)
The Caterpillars of this species feed on :
The adult forewings are greyish brown, with a dark band across each one. The hindwings are orange. The wingspan is about 7 cms.
The eggs are pale green and spherical. They are laid amid tail hairs from the mother.
The species occurs in :
Further reading :
Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, pl. 17.14, p. 421.
Rudolf Felder & Alois F. Rogenhofer,
Zoologischer Theil: Lepidoptera,
Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte Novara,
Band 2, Abtheilung 2 (1875), p. 5, and also
Plate 98, fig. 1.
Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria: part 2,
Tiger Moths and their Allies - Noctuoidea (A),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2009, pp. 8-9, 14-15.
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(updated 7 April 2013)