(one synonym : Odonestis hilaropa Lower, 1900) LASIOCAMPINAE, LASIOCAMPIDAE, BOMBYCOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Craig Nieminski, Darwin, Northern Territory)
This is a brown hairy caterpillar, with a pale dorsal stripe, and two black spots behind the thorax. It feeds on:
The adult moths are stout and brown with a white spot in the middle of each forewing.
The male has a wingspan of about 3 cms. The female about 3.5 cms.
The eggs are cream mottled with brown, and each has two brown spots. They are laid in a jumbled mass on a twig.
The species occurs in :
Further reading :
Johan Christian Fabricius,
Historiae Natvralis Favtoribvs,
Systema Entomologiae,
1775, p. 575, No. 57.
caterpillar | butterflies | Lepidoptera | moths | caterpillar |
(updated 12 September 2011)