About Ochropleura leucogaster Freyer
This moth species, Ochropleura leucogaster Freyer, has a wingspan of 32–36 mm. Its forewings are very narrow, usually dark brown, and relatively unmarked. Along the costal edge runs a broad, straight, light brown stripe that extends from the base to just behind the indistinct reniform (kidney-shaped) mark. Orbicular (ring-shaped) and reniform marks are often thinly outlined in white. Occasionally, a yellowish line is visible on the forewings. The caterpillar is brownish-grey, with fine whitish dorsal and secondary dorsal lines, plus a broad, yellowish lateral stripe. The pupa is 13.5 to 16 millimetres long and 4.5 to 6 mm wide, and is dark brown in colour, with the rear edges of abdominal segments A3 to A6 tending toward red. The integument is strongly roughened on the head, thorax, and wing appendages, and somewhat less rough on the other appendages of the head and thorax region. The abdomen is generally rough and strongly punctured. The cremaster is finely roughened, and has two longer, fork-shaped, blunt-ended spikes (0.5 to 0.6 mm) as well as four shorter spikes.
