Homodes bracteigutta (Walker, 1862)
(one synonym : Lophoruza chalcocosma)
 CATOCALINAE, NOCTUIDAE

Don Herbison-Evans ( donherbisonevans@yahoo.com )
&
Stella Crossley

(updated 22 August 2007)


(Photograph: courtesy of the Bishop Museum, Hawaii)

This caterpillar is green or brown, and has a series of long protuberances that it keeps waving about

  • Oecophylla ( FORMICINAE ).

    The caterpillar has been found on :

  • the flowers of Mango ( Mangifera indica, ANACARDIACEAE ),
  • Carrotwood ( Cupaniopsis anacardioides, SAPINDACEAE ), and
  • Amyema conspicuum ( LORANTHACEAE ).

    The adult moth is brown with faint zigzag grey lines across the wings.

    The species occurs in

  • Hong Kong,
  • Indonesia,
  • New Guinea,
  • Thailand, and
  • Queensland in Australia.

    Further reading :

    Ian F.B. Common,
    Moths of Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1990, p. 450.

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