Fallen Bark Looper - Gastrophora henricaria
Family Geometridae
This page contains information about Fallen Bark Lopper Moths that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- Moth body length 40mm
- The Fallen Bark Lopper caterpillars feed on gum tree leaves. We found the caterpillar on gum tree trunk near the ground in Wishart bushland during late summer. The caterpillar was brown in colour, hiding among the fallen barks and resembled one of them.
- Caterpillar 60mm
- We took the caterpillar home. A day later the caterpillar turned into a pupa. It pupated at a bottom corner of the container. We waited to see what the moth would be. We waited.... and waited.....
- One year later, we finally saw the moth. It was in the morning, the moth must have came out during the night. The moth was pale brown in colour, with a black line across both forewings. There are some black dots on both side of the line. The hind wings are orange and black in colour, covered by forewings when rest. Underneath each forewing has a dark blotch on pale orange..
- We took a few pictures and let go the moth from our back yard.
- Reference:
- 1. Gastrophora henricaria Guenee, 1857 - Don Herbison-Evans & Stella Crossley, 2008.
- 2. Moths
of Australia - I. F. B. Common, Melbourne University Press,
1990, p368, Pl.10.2.
