| (one synonym: Netria griseata Hampson, 1892) NOTODONTINAE, NOTODONTIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
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| (one synonym: Netria griseata Hampson, 1892) NOTODONTINAE, NOTODONTIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
This caterpillar is green with a dark dorsal line, and a pale yellow line along each side. It also has a series of diagonal yellow lines along each side, and black-ringed white spiracles. The caterpillar is chubby, and has a pink-tipped forked tail. The caterpillar hides underneath the leaves of its foodplant. It has been found feeding on:
all in SAPOTACEAE.
The adult moths of this species are dimorphic. The males have a wingspan of about 5 cms. The females have a wingspan of about 8 cms. Both sexes have green forewings with a broad brown band across each one, and have brown hindwings, but the males are rather paler than the females. The green colour fades to brown in Museum specimens.
The species occurs across south-east Asia, including
as well as in Australia in
Further reading :
George Francis Hampson,
The Macrolepidoptera Heterocera of Ceylon,
Illustrations of typical specimens of Lepidoptera Heterocera in the British Museum,
Part 9 (1893), p. 59, and also
Plate 160, fig. 14.
Francis Walker,
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Heterocera,
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,
Part 6 (1855), p. 1504.
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(updated 11 January 2012, 25 March 2018, 25 January 2021)