| (formerly known as Erosia semibrunnea) EPIPLEMINAE, URANIIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Kai Squires,
Daintree, Queensland)
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| (formerly known as Erosia semibrunnea) EPIPLEMINAE, URANIIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Kai Squires,
Daintree, Queensland)
This Caterpillar is green with a thin dark dorsal line, and a white lateral line each side. The head is dark yellow. The caterpillar has been found feeding on
The adult moths have black, white and brown wings. The forewings have a white area along the hind-margins. Th hindwings have a white patach along the costa. The hindwings also each have two small triangular tails. In their natural resting posture, the moths are inclined to fold up the hindwings against the abdomen, and each forewing up to the costa, making a 'T' shape. The wingspan is about 2 cms.
The species has been found across eastern Asia, including
and also Australia, in
Further reading
Arnold Pagenstecher,
Beiträge zur Lepidopteren-Fauna von Amboina,
Jahrbücher des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde,
Volume 37 (1884), p. 258.
Satoru Tominaga,
The larvae and their food plants of Striglina oceanica Thyrididae, Europlema semibrunnea Epiplemidae
and Ethmia nigroapicella Ethmiidae in Okinawa,
Yugato,
20 December 1999, 158, pp. 107-108.
 caterpillar |  butterflies |  Lepidoptera |  moths |  caterpillar |
(written 4 November 2014, updated 4 Augusy 2025)