Appearance
The characteristic feature is a forewing with vein 6 from above angle of cell. All three segments of the thorax have a pair of small black spots. The abdomen is black, clothed with white hairs. Forewings with the spots small, black and all obsolescent except those along the costa, outer margin and inner margin. Hindwing with a few obsolescent small spots and a prominent marginal series from the apex to vein 2, where they sometimes conjoined. In the female, spots of the forewing are fewer in number than the male, but more prominent and tinged with metallic blue. Larva and pupa reddish brown.Habitat
Female lay eggs on stem of the host plants. They are arranged in several rows on the branches of the plant. Larvae hatch out from the eggs in about ten days. The larvae feed on a wide range of plants, including "Casuarina", "Erythroxylum", "Acalypha", "Phyllanthus", "Doryalis", "Hydnocarpus", "Annona", "Cinnamomum", "Persea", "Phoebe", "Amherstia", "Cassia", "Pericopsis", "Xylia", "Gossypium", "Hibiscus", "Cedrela", "Chukrasia", "Melia", "Swietenia", "Psidium", "Grevillea", "Crataegus", "Eriobotrya", "Coffea", "Citrus", "Santalum", "Filicium", "Nephelium", "Schleichera", "Cestrum", "Theobroma", "Cryptomeria", "Camellia", "Clerodendrum", "Lantana", "Tectona" and "Vitex" species. The larvae occasionally reach pest status on coffee, tea, cotton, cocoa, kapok, coca and teak. They bore into the stem or branches of their host plant.In the Thrissur district of Kerala, India, larvae of the coffee carpenter were found damaging allspice for the first time.
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