Don Herbison-Evans (
donherbisonevans@yahoo.com )
&
Stella Crossley
(updated 12 February 2005)
(Photo: courtesy of the
Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations, Bundaberg)
This Caterpillar is a pest, particularly of:
The Caterpillar is buff coloured, with a dark brown head, dark spots along the sides, and is sparsely covered in hairs. Normally it lives in a tunnel bored in a shoot or root of the foodplant. It grows to a length of about 1.5 cms.
It pupates in its tunnel.
The adult moth is a yellow with purple head and thorax, and purple wingtips. It has a wingspan of about 2 cms.
It occurs over the north-eastern quarter of Australia.
Further reading :
J.R. Agnew (ed.), Australian Sugarcane Pests, Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations, (Indooroopilly) 1997, p. 45.
Gaden S. Robinson & Ebbe S. Nielsen, Tineid Genera of Australia, Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Volume 2, CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 1993.
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