Mahogany family : MELIACEAE (ROSIDAE) in Australia

Flower Families

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

Plant Classes

Azadirachta indica Neem Magnetic Island, January 2008 Photo: courtesy of Donald Simpson

Dysoxylum muelleri Red Bean Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, February 2009

Melia azedarach White Cedar Sydney, October 2006

Toona australis Red Cedar Bundaberg, September 2006

Plants in MELIACEAE are attacked by caterpillars of a number of Moth species in Australia, including:

Leptocnaria reducta	Hypsipyla robusta	Loboschiza koenigiana	Oxyodes scrobiculata
Tiracola plagiata	Cleora injectaria	Coscinocera hercules	Doloessa viridis

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Australian butterflies

Australian Lepidoptera

Australian moths

(updated 4 January 2013, 8 May 2019)