Chenuala heliaspis

Rose Anthelid at Cotter River, ACT

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Identification history

Chenuala heliaspis	11 Aug 2018	ibaird
Chenuala heliaspis	11 Aug 2018	donhe
Lasiocampidae (family)	11 Aug 2018	MichaelMulvaney
Unidentified	17 Feb 2018	HarveyPerkins

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this one was probably about 50 mm in length, the other was possibly as much as 65 mm.

7 comments

donhe wrote:

18 Feb 2018

Any idea what they were feeding on?

HarveyPerkins wrote:

18 Feb 2018

Neither was feeding at the time. My recollection is that they were both sitting tight on bare drooping branchlets of an essentially dead small tree, I think posssibly a eucalypt, but I didn't pay much attention.

donhe wrote:

18 Feb 2018

Some of the caterpillars of Lasicampidae are hairy like that, and have a pair of tufts behind the thorax and one on the tail, like
http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/lasi/pusilla.html

HarveyPerkins wrote:

18 Feb 2018

My first thought at the time was Lasiocampidae, but I really don't know much about them.

donhe wrote:

12 Aug 2018

The red hairy collar looks like Chenuala heliaspis which also has the dorsal chevron on each segment, and has variable colours.

ibaird wrote:

12 Aug 2018

Yes, a good match with D Hobern's example on the ALA and one of the LBH images for this species.

MichaelMulvaney wrote:

13 Aug 2018

Thanks Ian and Don