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Caterpillar
Eustixis sapotearum
-30.2468, 153.097
Field Notes
Description:
Length approx. 30mm.
The Caterpillars of this species have built in balloons. There are two large white patches on each side of the body, and when the Caterpillar is disturbed, these are inflated. It also then exudes a very sticky substance. Otherwise the animals are grey with two tubercles on the back of each segment.
Habitat:
Rainforest
Notes:
They pupate in crevices of the bark of the food tree in stiff white cocoons.
The adult moth has red forewings with with dark veins, and with yellow markings along the costa, and at the apex and tornus. The hindwings are plain scarlet. The abdomen is also scarlet. The males are rather paler than the females. The wingspan is about 4 cms.
The species occurs in New South Wales and Queensland.
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