inside of pink bud showing pink speckled caterpillar
(Photo: courtesy of Peter Marriott, Moths of Victoria: Part 3)

The caterpillars in pink varieties of Correa are pink with yellow stripes and speckles.

pink speckled caterpillar from pink bud
(Photo: courtesy of Peter Marriott, Moths of Victoria: Part 3)

The caterpillars in green varieties of Correa are green.

green caterpillar from green bud
(Photo: courtesy of Peter Marriott, Moths of Victoria: Part 3)

Pupation takes place within the flower.

The adult moth of this species is brown, with sinuous pale bands across the wings. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

(Photo: courtesy of Donald Hobern, Aranda, Australian Capital Territory)

The colours are variable, some individuals having large areas of the forewings replaced with white.

unusual variant
(Photo: courtesy of Peter Marriott, Moths of Victoria: Part 3)

The species is found in :

as well as in Australia in:

underside
(Photo: courtesy of Tim Leach, Evatt, Australian Capital Territory)

Further reading :

Achille Guenée,
Uranides et Phalénites,
in Boisduval & Guenée:
Histoire naturelle des insectes; spécies général des lépidoptères,
Volume 9, Part 10 (1857), p. 353, No. 1474.

Peter B. McQuillan, Jan A. Forrest, David Keane, & Roger Grund,
Caterpillars, moths, and their plants of Southern Australia,
Butterfly Conservation South Australia Inc., Adelaide (2019), p. 108.

Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria: Part 3,
Waves & Carpets - GEOMETROIDEA (C),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2011, pp. 12-13, 30-31.

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(updated 26 February 2013, 12 May 2018, 26 July 2019, 30 July 2020)