(Photo: copyright Cathy Young)
Don Herbison-Evans (
donherbisonevans@yahoo.com )
&
Catherine J. Young
&
Stella Crossley
(updated 15 June 2005)
These caterpillars are brown, with three dark dorsal patches. Several of the segments have a pair of short fleshy horns on the back. The caterpillars feed on:
The eggs are oval, shiny, and black, and covered in micriscopic white embossed pattern at one end. The eggs are laid in a row.
Further reading :
Catherine J. Young,
Characterisation of the Australian Nacophorini and a Phylogeny for the
Geometridae from Molecular and Morphological Data, Ph.D. thesis,
University of Tasmania, 2003.
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