![]() | Owlets EREBINAE, EREBIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | ![]() | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
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The Caterpillars of CATOCALINI are usually smooth, lacking obvious hairs. Many have one or more pairs of prolegs missing, and so move in a looping fashion.
Some of the adult moths of CATOCALINI have eye-shaped markings on the wings (the "owlets").
Some taxonomists list this group of species as a family CATOCALIDAE, or as a subfamily CATOCALINAE of NOCTUIDAE, or EREBIDAE, but here, following the Australian Faunal Directory, we include it as a tribe of the EREBINAE.
The 170 named Australian species in CATOCALINI are:
Agamana cavatalis
Agamana conjungens
Agamana pergrata
Agamana sarmentosa
Alapadna pauropis : Variable Spot-wing
Alophosoma emmelopis Bicoloured Crest
Alophosoma hypoxantha
Alophosoma syngenes
Amphiongia chordophoides : Sculpted Elegant
Brachycyttara crypsipyrrha : Cryptic Crest
Cyclodes spectans : Owl Moth
Dasypodia cymatodes : Northern Old Lady Moth
Dasypodia selenophora : Southern Old Lady Moth
Delgamma pangonia : Strawberry Cutworm
Diatenes aglossoides
Diatenes chalybescens
Diatenes gerula
Diatenes igneipicta
Donuca castalia
Donuca lanipes
Donuca memorabilis
Donuca orbigera
Donuca rubropicta
Donuca spectabilis : White-spotted Owl-Moth
Donuca xanthopyga
Eudesmeola lawsoni : Lawson's Night Moth
Homodes bracteigutta
Homodes crocea
Homodes iomolybda
Hypospila creberrima
Hypospila dochmotoma
Ischyja albata
Ischyja ebusa
Ischyja manlia
Ischyja neocherina
Madope auferens : Black-dot Moth
Mecodina bisignata
Mecodina praecipua
Nagia compsotrephes
Nagia linteola : Tropical White-Patch
Ophyx eurrhoa
Ophyx ochroptera
Ophyx pseudoptera
Oxygonitis sericeata
Oxygonitis sericeoides
Phyllodes imperialis : Imperial Fruit Sucking Moth
Rhapsa eretmophora : Rounded Rhapsa
Sophta aeluropis
Sophta concavata : Varied Hookwing
Sophta hapalopis : Two-toned Hookwing
Sophta poecilota
Speiredonia mutabilis : Plain Cloak Moth
Speiredonia obscura
Speiredonia spectans : Granny's Cloak Moth
Xenogenes chrysoplaca
Xenogenes gloriosa : Glorious Owlet
Xenogenes miranda
![]() EREBIDAE subfamily | ![]() butterflies | ![]() Lepidoptera | ![]() moths | ![]() EREBIDAE subfamily |
(updated 1 November 2014, 4 December 2024)