(previously known as : Axiologa pura)
LYMANTRIIDAE
Don Herbison-Evans (
donherbisonevans@yahoo.com )
&
Stella Crossley
(updated 18 April 2005)
(Photo: courtesy of Brenda Martin, Pambula, NSW)
Don Herbison-Evans (
donherbisonevans@yahoo.com )
&
Stella Crossley
(updated 18 April 2005)
(Photo: courtesy of Brenda Martin, Pambula, NSW)
This Caterpillar is yellow with an orange head and is covered in long white hairs. These include a tussock on the back of each of the first four abdominal segments.
One specimen found in Sydney was devouring the leaves of :
The Caterpillar pupates under a leaf in a voluminous loose cocoon containing the discarded larval skin and many larval hairs.
The adult female moth is white, with a pattern of broken thin brown lines on the forewings. It has a wingspan of about 6 cms.
The male has more pronounced brown lines, and has orange hind wings. The male has a span of about 4 cms.
Our female specimen laid about 200 eggs on the cocoon. They were pale yellow and shaped like a doughnut, with a diameter of about 0.5 mm.
The species has been taken in New South Wales and Victoria.
Further reading :
Ian F.B. Common, Moths of Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1990, p. 428.
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