Amata xanthosoma (Turner, 1898)
Yellow Tiger Moth
 (one synonym : Syntomis cremnotherma Lower, 1900)
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Amata xanthosoma
(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.

Amata xanthosoma
(Specimen: courtesy of the Macleay Collection, Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney)

The species has been found in

  • Western Australia,
  • Northern Territory, and
  • Queensland.

    Amata xanthosoma
    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 I, fig. 19,
    image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.

    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, 23 September 2025)