Daphnis placida placida
We have NOT found this moth on the Dorrigo Plateau.

Distribution:  Northern Territory & Cape York Peninsula, FNQ into NSW & south to Wollongong.

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Daphnis placida placida Beach, FNQ May 2014
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Daphnis placida placida, Whyanbeel FNQ, May 2018
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Whyanbeel FNQ, 30.5.2019
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D. placida placida underside, Whyanbeel FNQ, 30.5.2019
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D. placida placida (left) and D. moorei (right), Beatrice Qld, 30 Apr 2019 (Photo Bart Hacobian)
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Daphnis placida placida, Whyanbeel FNQ, 2018
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Whyanbeel FNQ, May 2014
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Daphnis placida placida - Cow Bay, Daintree National Park FNQ, May 2013
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Daphnis placida placida, Wonga Beach FNQ, May 2014
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Daphnis placida placida larva on Alstonia scolaris, Apr 2019, Julatten FNQ (Photo Dick Whitford)
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Alstonia sp. (Photo Jane Cairney)
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Alstonia sp. (Photo Jane Cairney)

Daphnis placida placida
We have NOT found this moth on the Dorrigo Plateau.

Distribution:  Northern Territory & Cape York Peninsula, FNQ into NSW & south to Wollongong.
 
Moth Sightings:  
  • DORRIGO PLATEAU:  Not applicable
  • ELSEWHERE:  Cow Bay, Daintree N.P. FNQ May 2013, Whyanbeel, FNQ May 2014, 2018, 2019, June 2019, Wonga Beach FNQ May 2014

Larva Sightings: 
  • DORRIGO PLATEAU:  Not applicable
  • ELSEWHERE:  None to date

Larval food plants:
  • DORRIGO PLATEAU:  Not applicable
  • ELSEWHERE: APOCYNACEAE  Alstonia actinophylla (Milkwood), A. constricta, A. muelleriana (Yellowwood), A scholaris (Milky Pine), Neisosperma kilneri, Ochrosia elliptica, Tabernaemontana divaricata.  CORNACEAE Alangium villosum subsp. polyosmoides, Alangium villosum subsp. tomentosum
 
Breeding season on the Dorrigo Plateau:  Not applicable
Breeding season in FNQ - not confirmed but thought to be all year

Flight habit: Nocturnal - Active at night.

Adult Moth:  Size at rest - tip of thorax to tip of forewing: 50mm, tip of forewing to tip of other forewing 60mm.
Mature larva:  length - ??mm.     Colour forms in the final instar are ?? form.