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All the other planthoppers wait until their fifth instar before transforming.

Unlike the day-feeding, younger instars, those in the last two stages feed at night, crawling down into bark crevices or leaf litter to hide during daylight, presumably to avoid predation.

Eggs hatching into caterpillars, which grow and shed skin between instars.

In later instars some of these caterpillars step up their powers of illusion, taking on the look of a snake's face.

The young caterpillars go through five series of molts and instars over a period of 10 to 14 days before forming their chrysalis and transforming within it for seven to 10 days.