Don Herbison-Evans (
donherbisonevans@yahoo.com )
&
Stella Crossley
(updated 6 April 2007)
(Photo: C. Mares,
CSIRO Entomology,
courtesy of D. Larsen, G. Fitt and L. Wilson,
Australian Cotton Cooperative Research Centre)
These caterpillars are white with a black head, and a pair of black dots on each thoracic segment. They feed on the foliage of :
initially mining the leaves, then later eating holes in the leaves.
Further reading :
Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, p. 192.
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