This Caterpillar is usually brown and hairy with four pale dorsal tufts of hair on abdominal segments one to four, and two lateral tufts each side from segments one and two also. The hairs can cause skin irritation ( urticaria ) in sensitive people. The head is red.

The Caterpillars were found feeding on :

Spider Flowers ( Grevillea species, PROTEACEAE ).

They pupate amongst the leaves of the foodplant.

male
(Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, Kuranda)

The male has brown patterned forewings.

The species has been found in :

South Australia.

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Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1990, p. 428.

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