This Caterpillar is green with a yellow stripe down its back. unusually for this family, it has no tubercles, but is smoothly rounded. It feeds on many species in PROTEACEAE.

The adults are brown. The forewings each have a white patch at the wingtip and a white pattern along the inner margin. The moths have a wingspan of about 5 cms.

(Specimen: courtesy of the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney)

They are found over much of mainland Australia.

Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1990, pls. 8.10, 25.6, p. 302.

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(updated 11 April 2011)