| SATURNIIDAE, BOMBYCOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of Wendy Hacobian, Millaa Millaa, Queensland)
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| SATURNIIDAE, BOMBYCOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of Wendy Hacobian, Millaa Millaa, Queensland)
These Caterpillars are stout and black with raised warts supporting bunches of branched white hairs. The warts on the thorax are red, and on the abdomen the warts are orange. The caterpillars have a brown head, white spiracles, and a white and yellow line along each side of the body. The caterpillars feed on the vines from the plant family PRIMULACEAE such as :
They pupate usually on other plants growing below the food plant in a tough oval cocoon.
The adult moths are yellow with a brown eyespot on each wing, and with two dark lines across each wing, the one nearer the base being broken. The forewings each have a black costa. The moths have a wingspan of about 8 cms.
The species is found in
Further reading :
Heinrich Ernst Karl Jordan,
New Saturnidae,
Novitates Zoologicae,
Volume 17 (1910) p. 474, No. 7.
David A. Lane,
Notes on the Life History of
Opodiphthera fervida (Jordan) (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae),
The Australian Entomologist,
Volume 21, Part 2 (July 1994), pp. 37-38.
Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 194.
 caterpillar |  butterflies |  Lepidoptera |  moths |  caterpillar |
(updated 22 January 2011, 16 April 2023)