Lepidoptera photos :

0 :		unidentified caterpillar possibly Oenchroma species, GEOMETRIDAE, photographed on Hakea species (probably Hakea lissosperma) in Tasmania, 30 January 1982 .
1 :		unidentified moth, possibly Scioglyptis species, GEOMETRIDAE, photographed at Churchill, Victoria, 9 March 2002.
2 :		live moth, length 1.5 cms, possibly TINEIDAE, photographed on a stem of Carex appressa, Morwell National Park, 4 November 2001 .
3 :		Agrius convolvuli SPHINGIDAE, on Morning glory Ipomoea indica in Churchill, Victoria, 27 December 1989.
4 :		caterpillar of Agrius convolvuli SPHINGIDAE, also on Ipomoea indica photographed in Churchill, Victoria, 26 March 1989, .
5 :		Cruria donowani AGARISTIDAE photographed in Sydney, 19 January 1988.
6 :		Fodina ostorius CATOCALINAE photographed at the Den of Nargun Reserve on the MacAlister River, Victoria, 13 January 2001.
7 :		male Iropoca rotundata, LYMANTRIIDAE, photographed in the Victorian Alps, 5 November 1994.
8 :		Persectania ewingii NOCTUIDAE photographed on the Bogong High Plains, 8 November 1998.
9 :		Tipanaea patulella, CRAMBIDAE photographed in a salt marsh in the Gippsland Lakes in Victoria, 20 November 1993.
10 :		Trictena atripalpis, HEPIALIDAE, photographed in Churchill on 4 May 1993.
11 :		I came home from a walk in Morwell National Park on 8th April 2002 and found the caterpillar on the back of my neck. Its hairs were somewhat irritating. I had no idea what plant it was on, but the trees where I had been walking were mostly Eucalypts and Blackwoods. I placed it in a jar with some Eucalypt leaves and some Blackwood leaves. It accepted the Blackwood ( Acacia melanoxylum ) leaves. I kept it supplied with leaves for 3-4 weeks, which it ate regularly. The caterpillar grew to about 4 to 5 cm long. It then began to weave a cocoon, which was very hairy, as if the hairs from the outside of the caterpillar had been incorporated in the cocoon. It pupated inside the cocoon, which was attached to a Blackwood stem and leaves. The pupa inside was a dark chocolate colour. Probably Anthela nicothoe, ANTHELIDAE,
12 :		number 11 again probably Anthela nicothoe, ANTHELIDAE,
13 :		Oxycanus dirempta, HEPIALIDAE,
14 :		Abantiades_hyalinatus, HEPIALIDAE,
15 :		Thallarcha partita, ARCTIIDAE, imperfect specimen, found on the ground on a track in Morwell National Park, 16 October 2004
16 :		Ectropis species, ENNOMINAE,
17 :		Abantiades labyrinthicus, HEPIALIDAE,
18 :		Persectania ewingii, HADENINAE,
19 :		Persectania ewingii, HADENINAE,
20 :		Crypsiphona ocultaria, GEOMETRINAE,
21 :		Crypsiphona occultaria, GEOMETRINAE,
22 :		caterpillar of Oenochroma vinaria, OENOCHROMINAE,
23 :		Ocybadistes walkeri, HESPERIIDAE,

and the following Caterpillar food plants :

Parsonsia straminea

(updated 15 March 2005)
Don Herbison-Evans