Blenina donans Walker, [1858]
(one synonym : Amrella grisea)
 SARROTHRIPINAE ,   NOLIDAE

Don Herbison-Evans ( donherbisonevans@yahoo.com )
&
Stella Crossley

Blenina donans
(Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, Kuarnda)

This caterpillar is smooth and green, with a yellowish head, and a blueish tail. The caterpillar feeds on plants such as:

  • Persimmon and Ebony ( Diospyros species, EBENACEAE ).

    Early instars shelter under young leaves. Later instars lie along twigs for camouflage.

    The pupa is formed in a yellow pear-shaped cocoon anchored by its four corners to a leaf.

    The moth has grey forewings and bright orange hindwings. The forewings each have an indistinct dark line diagonally across them. The hindwings have a black margin. The wingspan is up to 4 cms.

    Blenina donans
    specimen was caught in Bundaberg, Queensland.

    The species is found across south-east Asia to the south Pacific, including:

  • India,
  • Malaysia,
  • New Guinea,
  • Philippines,
    and also in Australia in:
  • Northern Territory, and
  • Queensland.

    Further reading :

    Ian F.B. Common,
    Moths of Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1990, pl. 22.4, p. 458.

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    (updated 14 February 2010)