Clubbed-hair Semi-looper - Homodes bracteigutta

Family Noctuidae

This page contains pictures and information about Clubbed-hair Semi-looper Moths that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.

Length 30mm

 

 

Mar 2008, Bulimba Creek near Wishart. From reference information, this caterpillar associates with ants of genus Oecophylla Formicinae. The moth is medium size and reddish brown in colour, which we did not found one yet.

 

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Reference:

1. Homodes bracteigutta (Walker, 1862) - Australian Caterpillars, by Don Herbison-Evans & Stella Crossley, 20011.

2. Moths of Australia - I. F. B. Common, Melbourne University Press, 1990, p450, Fig.45.4, Pl 31.15. 

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