Citrus Flower Moth PRAYDINAE, YPONOMEUTIDAE, YPONOMEUTOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)
These Caterpillars are a pest on:
The adult moths are fawn with brown markings, and have a wingspan of about 1 cm. The sex pheromones of this species have been investigated.
The species occurs in:
and also in Australia in
Further reading :
Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, p. 204.
Edward Meyrick,
Revision of Australian Lepidoptera: V,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 32, Part 4 (1907), p. 76, No. 102.
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(updated 31 October 2012, 3 January 2019)