(Photo: courtesy of Merlin Crossley)
Don Herbison-Evans (
donherbisonevans@yahoo.com )
&
Stella Crossley
(updated 24 August 2004)
This Caterpillar is brown above and greyish brown below. A cream lateral line extends onto the orange head capsule. The front of the head capsule is marked with vertical brown lines. Each prolegs is marked by a small black line. The Caterpillar hides by day at the soil surface, and feeds nocturnally on :
The Caterpillar pupates in the soil. Caterpillars which pupated in June in Melbourne emerged as adults the following January.
The adult moth has brown fore wings with pale orange markings. The hind wings are brown.
Further reading :
Ian F.B. Common, Moths of Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1990, pp. 65, 466.
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