Lichen-eating Caterpillar - Manulea replana

Family Arctiidae 

This page contains pictures and information about Lichen-eating Caterpillars that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.

Body length 20mm

Length 30mm

 

Above picture was taken on Feb 2008 in Karawatha Forest under loose bark. The caterpillar feeds on lichen at night. 

 

 

Feb 2010, Outside Office. The moth is brown in colour with a yellow spot on thorax. There are a yellow line on the lead edge of each fore-wing. The one in the pictures was found outside my office in Eight Mile Plains. It was attracted to there by a florescent light.  

 

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Reference:

1. Manulea replana (Lewin, 1805)  -  Australian Caterpillars by Don Herbison-Evans & Stella Crossley, 2010.

2. Moths of Australia - I. F. B. Common, Melbourne University Press, 1990, p437, pl.18.24.

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