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Cuspicona simplex
About 14mm long. Wing buds as on 4th instar?
On Kangaroo Apple - Solanum aviculare in a local nature reserve.
I think this is the penultimate instar. The Kangaroo apples are verging on ripeness (they are edible for humans when red)
http://morwellnp.pangaean.net/cgi-bin/sh...
http://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:b...
Spotted on Mar 1, 2014
Submitted on Mar 1, 2014
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