| (formerly known as Hydrusa orphnaea) SYNTOMIINI, CTENUCHINI, ARCTIINAE, EREBIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
male, drawing by George F. Hampson,
Catalogue of the Amatidæ and Arctiadæ (Nolinæ, Lithosianæ) in the Collection of the British Museum,
Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum,
Supplement Volume I (1900), Plate II, fig. 9,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library,
digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.
The adult moth of this species has black wings with translucent orange spots. The head is mainly black with an orange collar. The thorax is black. The abdomen is hairy, and has alternating black and orange bands. The moth has a wingspan of about 2.5 cms. The hindwings are only about half the span of the forewings. As in the genus Amata generally: female moths have a fatter abdomen, but a smaller wingspan than the males.
The species has been found in
Further reading :
George F. Hampson,
Catalogue of the Amatidae and Arctiadae (Nolinae, Lithosianae) in the Collection of the British Museum,
Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum,
Supplement 1 (1914), p. 23, No. 98b, and also
Plate 2, fig. 9.
A. Jefferis Turner,
Notes on Australian Lepidoptera,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 22 (1898), p. 98.
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(written 9 July 2017)