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Australia’s Largest Lepidopterans

January 28, 2008 By jennifer

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The Bleeding Heart (Homalanthus novoguineensis) is the preferred food plant of the caterpillar (above), which attains a length of 12 cm and produces Australia’s largest moth: The Hercules (Coscinocera hercules).

The female moth has a slightly paler and larger wing area than the male (below), whose wingspan reaches up to 27 cms.

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The female Cairns Birdwing (Ornithoptera euphorion) (below) is Australia’s largest endemic butterfly species, reaching a wingspan of up to 16 cm. Males are usually a few centimeters smaller.

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The caterpillar of this species (below) prefers to feed upon the native rainforest vine Dutchman’s Pipe (Aristolochia tagala).

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  1. Jan Pompe says

    January 28, 2008 at 8:39 pm

    i have tried many times to take photos like that on my bush walks but never succeeded. Wonderful stuff.

  2. Green Davey Gam Esq. says

    January 29, 2008 at 10:00 am

    A breath of fresh air, Neil. No politics, dogma, or dodgy statistics in sight. My idea of science. As you are probably aware, there is some wonderful work on self-organized pattern formation in nature, such as lepidopteran wings.
    Ref: Camazine et al. (2001) Self-Organization in Biological Systems. Princeton University Press.

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