(Specimen: courtesy of the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney)
Don Herbison-Evans (
donherbisonevans@yahoo.com )
&
Stella Crossley
(updated 7 August 2004)
This Caterpillar is a pest in Tasmania on:
and is inclined to eat the leaves of many other dicotyledons, including :
The adult moths are brown with a faint pattern on the forewings. They have a wingspan of about 3 cms.
The species is found from Queensland to Tasmania in Australia, as well as in New Zealand, and islands in the south Pacific.
Further reading :
Ian F.B. Common, Moths of Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1990, pp. 65, 461, 465, 467.
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