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Eudocima phalonia
Catterpillar approx. 4cm long feeding on Tinospora smilacina. Half a dozen of them cleaned up a 5m vine over a couple of days!
Spotted on Feb 7, 2016
Submitted on Feb 7, 2016
9 Comments
Great caterpillar !!!
The names are Synonyms, Tinospora smiliacina is a recorded larval plant for the species too.
http://eol.org/pages/3913620/names/synon...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudocima_p...
I was close!! :)
Strange....
Very similar... maybe even same... although they must have found a difference because they spell the Aus version different ?? http://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:b...
http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au...
Yay!!!! I got an ident correct :) Pure chance that you should be adding it as I'm going through some of mine Vinny .. They are beauties!
Awesome, looks like a good match Viv.
This is mine http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/378...
Looks similar to Eudocima phalonia - Fruit Piercing moth caterpillar.