| (formerly known as Chionophasma paradoxa) LYMANTRIINAE, EREBIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Peter Hendry,
Sheldon, Queensland)
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| (formerly known as Chionophasma paradoxa) LYMANTRIINAE, EREBIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Peter Hendry,
Sheldon, Queensland)
These Caterpillars are very colourful. They are green along the sides, with a broad pale purple stripe along the back interrupted by an orange bar on each segment, and a thin white line along the middle of the back The thorax segments each have two pairs of black-edged pale spots. The penultimate two abdominal segments each have a dark red dorsal gland. The body has sparse lateral tufts of white hairs. The head has a pair of long dark hair tufts, and there is single similar tuft on the tail. The head is orange with a yellow collar.
The caterpillars have been found feeding on
The caterpillar pupates in a white silk cocoon which incorporates a few dark hairs.
The adult moth is white except for some brown hairs on the head, and a yellow brush on its tail. Also the moth has a few dark yellow scales on the hind margins of the forewings, although these coloured scales fall off very easily. The moth has a wingspan of about 3 cms.
The species has been found in
Further reading :
Arthur G. Butler,
Descriptions of 21 new genera and 103 new species of Lepidoptera-Heterocera from the Australian region,
Transactions of the Entomological Society of London,
1886, Part 4, p. 385, No. 5, and also
Plate 9, fig. 2.
Peter Hendry,
Host plant for Euproctis paradoxa (Lepidoptera: Lymantriidae)
and notes on the Genus Euproctis,
Butterflies and Other Invertebrates Club,
Metamorphosis Australia,
Issue 63 (December 2011), pp. 20-21.
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(updated 7 October 2002, 10 October 2025)