Don Herbison-Evans (
donherbisonevans@yahoo.com )
and
Catherine J. Young
&
Stella Crossley
(updated 8 November 2008)
early instar
(Photo: copyright Cathy Young)
These Caterpillars are initially brown with dark markings.
Later they green with a broad red dorsal stripe and a red head. The caterpillars feed on plants from a wide variety of families, including :
The adult moths are brown with a submarginal arc of dark spots and a larger dark mark near the centre of each wing. The forewings have slightly hooked wingtips.
The eggs are laid in arrays, and are rounded cubes. Initially they are white, later developing red spots as hatching approaches.
The species is found in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia.
Further reading :
Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, p. 365.
Peter B. McQuillan,
The Tasmanian Geometrid Moths Associated with the Genus
Amelora auctorum (Lepidoptera : Geometridae : Ennomina) ,
Invertebrate Taxonomy, Volume 10,
Number 3, 1996, pp. 433-506.
Peter B. McQuillan,
An overview of the Tasmanian geometrid moth fauna
(Lepidoptera: Geometridae) and its conservation status,
Journal of Insect Conservation, Volume 8,
Issues 2 & 3, June 2004, pp. 209-220.
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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