Deuterocopus socotranus Rebel, 1907
 (one synonym : Deuterocopus triannulatus Meyrick 1913)
DEUTEROCOPINAE,   PTEROPHORIDAE,   PTEROPHORIOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
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Stella Crossley

Deuterocopus triannulatus
(Photo: courtesy of Trevor Jinks, North Burnett, Queensland)

This Caterpillar is mainly green with a pale brown head and a black prothorax. It has been found feeding on various species in VITACEAE, including:

  • Woolly Grape ( Vitis lanata )
  • Square-Stemmed Jungle Vine ( Cissus quadrangularis ),
  • Fox Grape ( Cayratia trifolia ), and
  • Taiwan Grape ( Cissus quinquangularis ).

    Deuterocopus triannulatus
    (Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

    The adult moth has forewings that are brown. The hindwings are brown with orange bases. The abdomen is brown with white markings. The moth has a wingspan of about 1 cm.

    The species has been found across Africa and Asia, including:

  • Hong Kong,
  • Ishigakijima (Japan),
  • Micronesia,
  • New Guinea,
  • Nigeria,

    as well as in Australia in

  • Western Australia, and
  • Queensland.

    Further reading :

    Ian F.B. Common,
    Moths of Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1990, Fig. 30.14, p. 332.

    Edward Meyrick,
    Tortricidae
    Exotic Microlepidoptera,
    Volume 1 (1915), pp. 107-108.

    Hans Rebel,
    Lepidopteren aus Südarabien und von der Insel Sokotra,
    Denkschriften der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften,
    Volume 71, Part 2 (1907), pp. 31-130, Plate 1.

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    (updated 17 June 2011, 3 April 2019)