(Photo: courtesy of Merlin Crossley)
Don Herbison-Evans (
donherbisonevans@yahoo.com )
&
Stella Crossley
(updated 28 August 2005)
Initial instars of this Caterpillar are green, but the final instar may also be brown:
Both forms have a pair of small white posterior spots. The Caterpillar is very similar to that of the related species Neumichtis nigerrimain this regard, although the adults are more easily distinguished.
Its food plants include various garden weeds and herbaceous plants, for example:
In Tasmania, the Caterpillar of this species is a pest on:
The species may be found over the south-east quarter of Australia, being sometimes very common in Melbourne. The moth has brown patterned fore wings with a white spot near the centre of each.
The species appears as Illustration number 14, in Plate CIV of Hampson's Noctuidae of the British Museum, 1903-1913.
Further reading :
Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, pp. 65, 465, 467.
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