Neil Hewett
Cooper Creek Wilderness

Neil's company manages 160 acres of freehold rainforest within the Daintree Cape Tribulation Section of the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area, Queensland, Australia. The company's international obligations are achieved financially through ecotourism activities, and in particular: guided and interpreted day and night walks. From time to time these walks encounter wierd and wonderful fauna such as those shown below :

0 : length 10 cms.
probably Anthela canescens,
ANTHELIDAE.
1 : wingspan about 13 cms.
probably Lyssa macleayi,
URANIIDAE.
2 : dorsal view of Fruit Piercing Moth Caterpillar Phyllodes imperialis,
CATOCALINAE, NOCTUIDAE.
3 : side view of Fruit Piercing Moth Caterpillar Phyllodes imperialis,
CATOCALINAE, NOCTUIDAE.
4 : Fruit Piercing Moths
including 2 x Phyllodes imperialis,
and half an Khadira aurantia,
CATOCALINAE, NOCTUIDAE.
5 : Fruit Piercing Moth
Phyllodes imperialis,
CATOCALINAE, NOCTUIDAE.
6 : Purple Brown Eye
Chaetocneme porphyropis,
HESPERIIDAE.
7 : Urapteroides astheniata,
URANIIDAE.
8 : Khadira aurantia moth,
CATOCALINAE, NOCTUIDAE,
wingspan about 10 cms.
9 : Atlas Moth,
Coscincera hercules,
SATURNIIDAE
10 : undetermined moth species
wingspan about 10 cms.
11 : undetermined moth species
wingspan about 6.5 cms.
12 : undetermined moth species
wingspan about 6.5 cms.
13 : Union Jack Butterfly
Delias mysis,
PIERIDAE.
14 : back end of a
Khadira aurantia moth,
CATOCALINAE, NOCTUIDAE,
wingspan about 10 cms.
15 : Citrus Butterfly (female)
Papilio aegeus,
PAPILIONIDAE.
16 : Eudesmeola lawsoni,
CATOCALINAE, NOCTUIDAE,
showing wing damage typical of a bird attack.
17 : undetermined Noctuid Moth,
NOCTUIDAE.
18 : Hawk Moth :
Angonyx papuana,
SPHINGIDAE.
19 : Cydalima laticostalis,
CRAMBIDAE,
wingspan about 6 cms.
20 : Eudesmeola lawsoni,
CATOCALINAE, NOCTUIDAE.
21 : undetermined Moth,
possibly AGANAIDAE,
wingspan about 8 cms.
22 : Pachythrix hampsoni,
NOCTUIDAE,
wingspan about 5 cms.
23 : undetermined Moth
wingspan about 3 cms.
24 : undetermined Caterpillar
probably on Thunbergia (ACANTHACEAE) vine,
length about 8 cms.
25 : Pleuroptya species,
PYRALIDAE.
26 : Ischyja neocherina,
CATOCALINAE, NOCTUIDAE.
27 : Serrodes campana,
CATOCALINAE, NOCTUIDAE.
28 : a mating pair of
Eumelea rosalia, OENOCHROMINAE, GEOMETRIDAE.
29 : probably Syntherata janetta,
SATURNIIDAE.
30 : hmm
31 : young larvae of Mynes geoffroyi, ( NYMPHALIDAE),
On Dendrocnide moroides (URTICACEAE), length about 7 cms.
.
32 : mature larva of Mynes geoffroyi, ( NYMPHALIDAE),
On Dendrocnide moroides(URTICACEAE), length about 9 cms.
.
33 : unknown Caterpillar.
34 : moth, just emerged from the pupa,
still expanding its wings,
possibly Lymantria lunata, LYMATRIIDAE.

(updated 21 March 2005)
Don Herbison-Evans


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