| SPILOMELINAE, CRAMBIDAE, PYRALOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Shelley Boyd & Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Buck Richardson, Kuranda, Queensland,
listed as Arthroschista hilaralis)
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| SPILOMELINAE, CRAMBIDAE, PYRALOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Shelley Boyd & Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Buck Richardson, Kuranda, Queensland,
listed as Arthroschista hilaralis)
The caterpillars of this species are yellow, with a brown head, black thorax, black tail, and pairs of black spots along the back.
The caterpillars abseil down silk threads to the ground to pupate in the ground litter.
The adults are a beautiful green colour, with a brown line along the costa of each forewing with two adjacent brown dots, and brown dots along the margin of each hind wing, and often along the abdomen. The moths have a wingspan of about 3 cms.
The green wings are blotchy, in contrast to the green Pyralids in the genus Parotis, which have uniformly coloured wings, see for example : Parotis suralis.
The species was found in Australia in
Further reading :
Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 32.
 caterpillar |  butterflies |  Lepidoptera |  moths |  caterpillar |
(updated 1 February 2013, 8 December 2022)