| Rainforest Vine Day-moth (formerly known as Melanchroia subaspersa) AGARISTINAE, NOCTUIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Ian Common, from
Moths of Australia)
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| Rainforest Vine Day-moth (formerly known as Melanchroia subaspersa) AGARISTINAE, NOCTUIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Ian Common, from
Moths of Australia)
This Caterpillar is brown with dark white-edged bands containing pale yellow dots between the segments. The bands behind the prothorax and abdominal segments one and eight are particularly dark. The caterpillar has some sparse long white hairs. The caterpillar is reported to feed on:
all of VITACEAE.
The adult moth is black with a diagonal white bar across each of the forewings. The hindwings are black, sometimes with black and white chequered margins, and sometimes with a central white spot. The wingspan is about 3 cms.
The abdomen is black with yellow inter-segmental bands. The legs have alternating black and white bands.
The species occurs in
Further reading :
Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, fig. 49.14, pl. 32.8, p. 464.
Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria - Part 8,
Night Moths and Allies - NOCTUOIDEA(B),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2017, pp. 34-35.
Francis Walker,
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Heterocera,
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,
Part 31 (1864), p. 210.
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(updated 3 June 2003, 11 October 2013, 27 December 2014, 12 December 2017, 29 January 2020, 26 August 2021)