Mistletoe family
LORANTHACEAE in Australia
ROSIDAE

Don Herbison-Evans ( donherbisonevans@yahoo.com ) & Christine Ashe

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Amyema bifurcata Gum Tree Mistletoe Magnetic Island Photos: courtesy of Donald Simpson	Amyema cambagei Sheoak Mistletoe Coombabah, Queensland, April 2007 Photo: courtesy of Doug and Ruth Jessop	Amyema maidenii Maiden's Mistletoe Tibooburra, New South Wales Photo: courtesy of Laura Levens	Amyema miquelii Box Mistletoe Adelaide, January 2009
Dendrophthoe glabrescens Smooth Mistletoe Bundaberg	Dendrophthoe vitellina Long-flower Mistletoe South Stradbroke Island Photo: courtesy of Todd Burrows	Lysiana exocarpi Harlequin Mistletoe Tibooburra, New South Wales Photo: courtesy of Laura Levens	Nuytsia floribunda Western Australian Christmas Tree Western Australia, October 2007

Some caterpillars of Australian Lepidoptera that feed on Mistletoes are:

Comocrus behri	Homodes bracteigutta	Trigonoorda gavisalis	Genduara acedesta	Genduara subnotata	Arhopala centaurus
Candalides margarita	Erysichton palmyra	Hypochrysops digglesii	Hypochrysops narcissus	Hypolycaena phorbas	Ogyris abrota
Ogyris aenone	Ogyris amaryllis	Ogyris barnardi	Ogyris genoveva	Ogyris ianthis	Ogyris iphis
Ogyris olane	Ogyris oroetes	Ogyris zosine	Euproctis edwardsii	Delias aganippe	Delias argenthona
Delias aruna	Delias ennia	Delias harpalyce	Delias mysis	Delias nigrina	Delias nysa

Opodiphthera engaea

Opodiphthera loranthi

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Australian butterflies

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Australian moths

(updated 15 February 2012)