This Caterpillar is black with a thin pale mid-dorsal line, a broad white line along each side, and with a conspicuous red dot above its only pair of ventral prolegs. Its true legs are also red. Its head capsule is cream with black or brown markings.

(Photo: copyright Dave Britton)

This species has been recorded as feeding on many species of unrelated plants, and has also adapted to feeding on the introduced

Monterey Pine ( Pinus radiata, PINACEAE ).

female
(Photo: copyright Dave Britton)

The adult moths are grey with variable darker radial lines and other markings on the forewings.

male
(Photo: copyright Dave Britton)

These specimens were caught in Victoria and Tasmania.

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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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