The Caterpillars of this species are green with a pale stripe along each side of the back. There are some yellow markings each side of the thorax. The caterpillar often has an 'S' shaped reddish tail spine.

(Photo: courtesy of Lyle Radford, Ipswich)

The caterpillars can have a blue and a yellow stripe along each side, and a strongly back-curving black-tipped yellowish horn.

(photo: courtesy of Jan MacDonald, Finch Hatton, Queensland)

The caterpillars have been found feeding on:

Banana Bush ( Tabernaemontana angustisepala ),

all of APOCYNACEAE.

The adult moth has a complex pattern of light and dark brown on the wings, and a white bar across the first abdominal segment. The moth has a wingspan of about 6 cms.

(Photo: courtesy of Tom and David Sleep, Brisbane)

The species is found over south-east Asia, including :

the northern half of Australia.

Fiji, 2001

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Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1990, pls. 16.2, 29.5, pp. 71, 412.

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(updated 8 April 2011)