Adoxophyes orana Fischer von R sslerstamm back to HYPP Zoology home page . Head and thorax beige. In the female, brownish colour with darker pattern.
Hind wings light grey in the male, and brown-grey in the female.
Greenish yellow to olive green. Head and thoracic plate glossy brown in the young caterpillar, turning honey-yellow later. 90 day-degrees . L ife Cycle - 2 generations per year. Mating and oviposition occur in the evening, when temperatures are around 13 C. - The summer caterpillars appear at the end of June and attack the leaves at the tips of the stems, and then the leaves lower down.