These Caterpillars are brown with a black head that has white dots. It only has one pair of prolegs in addition to the claspers, so it moves in a looper fashion. It rests on the prolegs and claspers looking like a twig.

eggs magnified
(Photo: copyright Cathy Young)

The eggs are laid in a row. They are smooth and squarish-oval, and each has a broad dimple. Their colour is white with red spots.

Further reading :

Catherine J. Young,
Characterisation of the Australian Nacophorini and a Phylogeny for the Geometridae from Molecular and Morphological Data, Ph.D. thesis, University of Tasmania, 2003.

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