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Chrysodeixis eriosoma
A type of looper moth I haven't seen before. About 22mm long. It was accidentally flushed from shrubbery in an outer urban back yard and didn't hang around for a second picture. The bright wing markings should be enough for an ID though.
Urban back yard.
Sometimes called Green Looper the caterpillar feeds on just about anything...
GERANIACEAE, ASTERACEAE, FABACEAE, LAMIACEAE, RUTACEAE, SOLANACEAE
family: NOCTUIDAE
subfamily: Plusiinae
genus: Chrysodeixis
Distribution in Australia http://spatial.ala.org.au/?q=lsid:%22urn...
Spotted on Jan 11, 2014
Submitted on Jan 12, 2014
2 Comments
It does look similar Fyn. There's so many of those little squiggly white patterns. Sometimes they glow and almost seem luminous at night. I must try to capture that. As usual that one is not in Australia so I must keep looking :(
Looks similar to our Anagrapha falcifera... http://bugguide.net/node/view/758756