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The egg is ivory with vertical ribbing. The larvae are similar coloured from head to tail, being yellow brown with dark and light lateral striping. A fully grown larva is roughly 20 mm long. The pupa is grey and cream with fine black spotting along the abdomen, changing to a brown on the rest of
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