Amata paraula (Meyrick, 1886) (previously known as Hydrusa paraula) SYNTOMIINI,   CTENUCHINI,   ARCTIINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley

(Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)

The adult moth of this species is black with transparent windows in the wings. In this species: there are often four or five adjacent windows along the forewing margin, although counting from the wingtip: the first and third are smaller than the others. The hindwings have a large multifaceted window at the base. The head has a yellow collar. The moth has a black and yellow banded abdomen. It has a wingspan of about 3 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.

(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The species has been caught in

Queensland.

underside
(Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)

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Further reading :

Edward Meyrick,
Revision of Australian Lepidoptera: V,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 2, Volume 1, Part 3 (1886), p. 779, No. 125.

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(updated 27 April 2008, 4 December 2020)