orange-banded plane caterpillar

Description:

Caterpillars with 20 or so long white spiky lateral processes. The orange-banded plane caterpillar's host species is Calophyllum (See Habitat below and 2nd reference link). See an adult here http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/753...

Habitat:

Spotted on a recently cut beach mahogany (Calophyllum inophyllum) branch in a pile of cut branches from a mixture of plant species. This was in a large semi-urban yard/garden adjacent to a disturbed remnant patch of forest, in the equatorial tropics of northern New Guinea.

Notes:

Caterpillar identified from page 142 of Gotts, Robert, Norris Pangemanan, and Freeport Indonesia, Inc. Mimika Butterflies : A Guide to the Butterflies of the Mimika Subdistrict of Papua--. Timika, Indonesia: Freeport Indonesia, 2001. |--------------------------------------| Interesting video of a related caterpillar moulting here http://www.mashpedia.com/videoplayer.php...