(one synonym: Dicreagra ochrocephala)
ANTHELIDAE
Don Herbison-Evans (
donherbisonevans@yahoo.com )
&
Mike & Pat Coupar (
Ian.Coupar@vcp.monash.edu.au )
(updated 28 February 2004)
Don Herbison-Evans (
donherbisonevans@yahoo.com )
&
Mike & Pat Coupar (
Ian.Coupar@vcp.monash.edu.au )
(updated 28 February 2004)
This Caterpillar starts life as one of a row of buff eggs laid by its mother along the edge of a leaf or stem of its foodplant.
The Caterpillar is a slender, grey and yellow, and hairy, with two tufts of black hair behind the head, and a similar single tuft on the tail. Its head capsule is brown.
It feeds on a variety of:
It grows to a length of 5 cms.
It pupates in a cocoon under bark or in a crevice.
The adult males and females are very different. The female is larger with dark grey and white wings and an abdomen striped in white and grey, and has a wingspan up to 4 cm. The male has a wingspan up to 3 cm, and has orange, brown and cream wings.
The species can be found from Bundaberg to Hobart.
Further reading :
Pat and Mike Coupar, Flying Colours, New South Wales University Press, Sydney 1992, p. 30.
David Carter, Butterflies and Moths, Collins Eyewitness Handbooks, Sydney 1992, p. 213.
Ian F.B. Common, Moths of Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1990, p. 396.
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