(Photo: courtesy of Clive S. Pratt, The Insect Company)
Don Herbison-Evans (
donherbisonevans@yahoo.com )
&
Stella Crossley
(updated 11 March 2009)
The Caterpillar of this species is orange with a black line along the back and a white line along each side. It has white hairs along the back and brown hairs along each side. The head has two black horns. The Caterpillar grows to a length of about 5 cms. It feeds on :
The pupa is green with a length of about 3 cms. It hangs from a black cremaster.
The adult butterflies are pale brown, shading to yellow at the base of each wing. There are two eyespots on the underside of each hindwing. The butterflies have a wingspan of about 8 cms.
This species is found as various subspecies in :
Further reading :
Michael F. Braby,
Butterflies of Australia,
CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 2000, vol. 2, pp. 462-463.
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