Mistletoe family
LORANTHACEAE in Australia
ROSIDAE

Don Herbison-Evans ( donherbisonevans@yahoo.com ) & Christine Ashe

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Amyema cambagei Sheoak Mistletoe Coombabah, Queensland, April 2007 Photo: courtesy of Doug and Ruth Jessop,

Amyema maidenii Maiden's Mistletoe Tibooburra, New South Wales Photo: courtesy of Laura Levens

Amyema miquelii Box Mistletoe Adelaide, January 2009

Dendrophthoe glabrescens Smooth Mistletoe Bundaberg

Dendrophthoe vitellina Long-flower Mistletoe (Photo: courtesy of Todd Burrows, South Stradbroke Island)

Lysiana exocarpi Harlequin Mistletoe Tibooburra, New South Wales Photo: courtesy of Laura Levens

Nuytsia floribunda Western Australian Christmas Tree Western Australia, October 2007

Some caterpillars of Australian Lepidoptera that feed on Mistletoes are:

Comocrus behri	Homodes bracteigutta	Trigonoorda gavisalis	Genduara acedesta	Genduara subnotata	Arhopala centaurus
Candalides margarita	Erysichton palmyra	Hypochrysops digglesii	Hypochrysops narcissus	Hypolycaena phorbas	Ogyris abrota
Ogyris aenone	Ogyris amaryllis	Ogyris barnardi	Ogyris genoveva	Ogyris ianthis	Ogyris iphis
Ogyris olane	Ogyris oroetes	Ogyris zosine	Euproctis edwardsii	Delias aganippe	Delias argenthona
Delias aruna	Delias ennia	Delias harpalyce	Delias mysis	Delias nigrina	Delias nysa

Opodiphthera engaea

Opodiphthera loranthi

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Australian butterflies

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Australian moths

(updated 16 September 2010)