The caterpillar eats the flesh of the leaves, leaving the skeleton of veins.
The adult moth has brown patterned forewings and plain brown hindwings.
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Don Herbison-Evans (
donherbisonevans@yahoo.com )
&
Stella Crossley
(updated 25 January 2005)
This species was introduced deliberately to control the introduced weed :
The caterpillar eats the flesh of the leaves, leaving the skeleton of veins.
The adult moth has brown patterned forewings and plain brown hindwings.
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