Yellow Tiger Moth (one synonym : Syntomis cremnotherma Lower, 1900) SYNTOMIINI, CTENUCHINI, ARCTIINAE, EREBIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Simon Ong, Kununurra, Western Australia)
The adult moth of this species is orange with dark brown spots. It has a wingspan of about 3 cms. The hind wings 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. 14, No. 76a, and also
Plate 1, fig. 19.
A. Jefferis Turner,
Notes on Australian Lepidoptera,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 22 (1898), p. 93.
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(updated 27 April 2008, 30 April 2013, 27 January 2016, 7 July 2017, 26 April 2020, 23 August 2023)