Graceful Sun Moth CASTNIIDAE, SESIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
These caterpillars are off-white. They live undeground, boring into the roots of various species of Matrush (ASPARAGACEAE), including
The adult moth of this species has pale grey-brown forewings each with substantial dark brown markings. The hindwings are scarlet, each with variable dark brown markings, including dark brown margins sometimes containing a submarginal arc of pale spots. The wingspan is about 3 cms.
The species occurs in
Further reading :
John O. Westwood,
A monograph of the Lepidopterous genus Castnia and some allied groups,
Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 2nd Series (Zoology),
Volume 1 (1877), p. 198, and also
Plate 33, fig. 13.
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(written 24 August 2018)