Pink Bellied Moth - Oenochroma vinaria
Family Geometridae
- This page contains information about Pink Bellied Moths that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- Wingspan 40mm
- This moth is pink in colour. Photos were taken outside our house at a summer night. The colour of this moths can be brown to pink within species, resemble a dry gum leaf. They have re-curved wingtips and a yellow line across each wing. This moths have many common names such as Hakea Moths, Grevillea Moths and Win-coloured Moths. Their caterpillars are brown in colour, have a large black band with white dots. They feed on Grevillea and Hakea.
- Reference:
- 1. Oenochroma vinaria Guenee, 1857 - Don Herbison-Evans & Stella Crossley, 2011.
- 2. Moths
of Australia - I. F. B. Common, Melbourne University Press,
1990, p368, plate10.12.
