(synonym : Siculodes fenestrata Pagenstecher, 1888) RHODONEURINI, SICULODINAE, THYRIDIDAE, THYRIDOIDEA | ( donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
female
(Photo: courtesy of
Buck Richardson,
Kuranda, Queensland)
The Caterpillar of this species is a borer. It has been found in boreholes in
The caterpillars are missing three pairs of prolegs, and walk like loopers in the family GEOMETRIDAE. The caterpillars pupate in their boreholes.
The adult moths of this species are brownish orange, with several paler and darker bands across each wing. The hindwings have a variable number of indistinct white spots. The wingspan is about 5 cms.
The eggs are white and spherical, and laid in groups of about 5 in irregular rows on a foodplant.
The species is found in:
and also in Australia in
Further reading :
Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, fig. 31.4, p. 341.
M. De Baar,
Life history notes on Bracca rotundata and Oxycophlna theorina,
Australian Entomologist,
Volume 35, Number 4 (2008), pp. 141-143.
Edward Meyrick,
On Pyralidina from Australia and the South Pacific,
Transactions of the Entomological Society of London,
1887, p. 200.
Buck Richardson,
Mothology,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2008, p. 39.
Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 208.
Paul Zborowski and Ted Edwards,
A Guide to Australian Moths,
CSIRO Publishing, 2007, p. 126.
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(updated 29 June 2013, 18 November 2022)