Titanoceros thermoptera (Lower, 1903) (previously known as Jocara thermoptera) EPIPASCHIINAE,   PYRALIDAE,   PYRALOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley

Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, from
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art

This Caterpillar is oophagous. It feeds on the eggs of other moths, such as those of Ochrogaster lunifer.

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

The adult moth is brown, with reddish and greenish patches on the forewings, although the hues fade to brown in dead specimens. The hindwings are yellow with brown wingtips. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

The species is found in Australia in

Western Australia.

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Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, fig. 31.16, pp. 48, 71, 348.

Oswald B. Lower,
Descriptions of New Australian Noctuina, etc.,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 27 (1903), p. 59.

Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 188.

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(created 19 January 2012, updated 2 January 2021, 17 May 2022)