Synemon catocaloides Walker, 1865
Showy Sun Moth
 CASTNIIDAE,   SESIOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley


(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The Caterpillars of this species appear to feed upon the roots of the plant :

  • Tussocky Cord Rush ( Ecdeiocolea monostachya, CYPERACEAE ).

    The adult moths have brown forewings with white markings, and dark brown hindwings with red spots.


    listed as Synemon catocaloides    ,
    drawing by Strand, lithograph by Hochdanz Co., printed by Werner & Winter for Seitz
    in The Macrolepidoptera of the World, Alfred Kernen Verlag, Volume 10 (1933), Plate 9, fig a4,
    image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Natural History Museum Library, London.

    The species has been found in

  • Western Australia.


    underside, listed as Synemon catocaloides
    drawing by Strand, lithograph by Hochdanz Co., printed by Werner & Winter, for Seitz
    in The Macrolepidoptera of the World, Alfred Kernen Verlag, Volume 10 (1933), Plate 9, fig a4,
    image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Natural History Museum Library, London.

    Further reading

    Francis Walker,
    Catalogue of Lepidoptera Heterocera,
    List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,
    Part 31, Supplement 1 (1865), pp. 44-45.

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    (updated 19 December 2009, 1 October 2026)