Don Herbison-Evans (
donherbisonevans@yahoo.com )
&
Pat and Mike Coupar
&
Stella Crossley
(updated 27 October 2005)
(Photo from:
"Flying Colours", Coupar & Coupar, 1992)
This smooth Caterpillar is usually green when young, later becoming brown. It feeds on:
living in a solitary shelter of silk and droppings on the foodplant. It grows to a length of about 2 cms.
It pupates in its shelter.
The adult has brown or grey wings, the forewings with a dark pattern, and the hind wings plain. It has long legs. The moth has a wingspan of about 3 cms.
Further reading :
Pat and Mike Coupar, Flying Colours, New South Wales University Press, Sydney 1992, p. 84.
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