| (previously known as Pyrausta platycapna) SPILOMELINAE, CRAMBIDAE, PYRALOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
Photo: courtesy of S.Z. Ghazali, B.M. Md-Zain, B. M., H. Maideen, A. Maimon, & S. Yaakop,
A first record of gregarious moth pest, Herpetogramma playcapna (Meyrick)
on Fern species Angiopteris evecta (G. Forst.) Hoffm from Malaysia,
Malaysian Applied Biology, Volume 43, Part 2 (2014), pp. 105-109.
The Caterpillar of this species is green with a black head and prothorax. The caterpillars have been found feeding gregariously on:
The caterpillars live and feed in a shelter created by rolling some fronds of the fern into a ball.
The adult moth has yellow wings with variable brown spots and wiggly lines, and broad brown wing margins. The moth has a wingspan of about 2 cms.
The species is found in
and northern Australia including
Further reading :
S.Z. Ghazali, B.M. Md-Zain, B. M., H. Maideen, A. Maimon, & S. Yaakop,
A first record of gregarious moth pest, Herpetogramma playcapna (Meyrick)
of Fern species Angiopteris evecta (G. Forst.) Hoffm from Malaysia,
Malaysian Applied Biology,
Volume 43, Part 2 (2014), pp. 105-109.
Edward Meyrick,
On Lepidoptera from Malay Archipelago,
Transactions of the Entomological Society of London,
1897, p. 90.
 caterpillar |  butterflies |  Lepidoptera |  moths |  caterpillar |
(updated 1 April 2003, 15 September 2015, 26 October 2020)