Conogethes tharsalea

Conogethes tharsalea (Meyrick, 1887)
(previously known as Notarcha tharsalae)
SPILOMELINAE, CRAMBIDAE, PYRALOIDEA

Conogethes tharsalea
(Photo: courtesy of Dick Whitford, Mount Molloy, Queensland)

The Caterpillar of this species is pale green, with a black head, and two black marks on the prothorax.

(Photo: courtesy of Dick Whitford, Mount Molloy, Queensland)

The caterpillar has been found feeding on

Pink Burr (Urena lobata, MALVACEAE).

rolled leaf shelter
(Photo: courtesy of Dick Whitford, Mount Molloy, Queensland)

The caterpillar lives in a shelter created by rolling a leaf.

pupa
(Photo: courtesy of Dick Whitford, Mount Molloy, Queensland)

The caterpillar grows to a length of about 3cms. Pupation appears to occur in the ground litter. The pupa is brown with a length of about 1.5 cms.

(Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, Kuranda, Queensland)

The adult moth is pale yellow, with a pattern of black spots on each wing. The moth has a wingspan of about 3 cms.

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

The species has been found in

underside
(Photo: courtesy of Dick Whitford, Mount Molloy, Queensland)

Further reading :

Edward Meyrick,
On Pyralidina from Australia and the South Pacific,
Transactions of the Entomological Society of London,
1887, pp. 225-226.

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(updated 14 March 2008, 8 December 2022)