| (one synonym: Holoreta rubicunda Warren, 1902) DREPANIDAE, DREPANOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of Annabel Taylor,
Cape Hillsborough, Queensland)
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| (one synonym: Holoreta rubicunda Warren, 1902) DREPANIDAE, DREPANOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of Annabel Taylor,
Cape Hillsborough, Queensland)
The mature caterpillar of this species is brown, with with a pair of pointed eye-like organs on the head, an elongated knob on the back of the thorax, no visible true legs or claspers, and a long forked tail.
When disturbed, the caterpillar lifts the front and hind segments, and looks oddly like a small mammal.
The caterpillar has been found feeding on
The pupa is brown with white markings.
pupal shelter
(Photo: courtesy of Annabel Taylor,
Cape Hillsborough, Queensland)
It is formed in a curled up leaf of the foodplant.
The adult moth of this species has yellow to brown wings, with some bubbly looking speckles near the base, and sometimes with a wavy line from wingtip to the middle of the hind margin of each forewing.
The forewings have the characteristic hooked wingtips of this moth family DREPANIDAE. The wingspan is about 4 cms.
The species has been found in
and in Australia in
Further reading :
Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, pl. 11.3, p. 380.
Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 54.
William Warren,
New species of Drepanulidae, Thyrididae, Uraniidae, Epilemidae, and Geometridae in the Tring Museum,
Novitates Zoologicae,
Volume 3 (1896), pp. 335-336.
 caterpillar |  butterflies |  Lepidoptera |  imagoes |  caterpillar |
(updated 18 January 2013, 5 April 2026)