Alice Springs Fauna •
Alice Springs MothsAustralian Striped Hawk Moth (Hyles livornicoides) Bag-shelter Moth & Processionary Caterpillar Chasmina pulchra (White Beauty) Cossid Moth (Endoxyla leucomochla) Godart’s Hawkmoth (Agrius godarti) Helicoverpa punctigera (Australian Fruitworm) Laced Day-Moth (Ipanica cornigera) Leptocneria binotata Mocis alterna (Bean Looper Moth) Owlet Moth (Eudesmeola lawsoni) Sameodes cancellalis (Banded Pearl) Yeperenye / Yipirinya
Known as the Godart’s Hawkmoth (Agrius godarti), subfamily Sphinginae, this moth has a wide distribution across the mainland of Australia. The one pictured here was in Alice Springs in Central Australia in the Northern Territory.
This Agius godarti moth was on the shade cloth in an urban garden setting, and relocated into the garden area.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Lepidoptera
- Unranked: Ditrysia
- Superfamily: Sphingoidea
- Family: Sphingidae
- Subfamily: Sphinginae
- Genus: Agrius
- Species: Agrius godarti
Footnote & References
- Many thanks to Bjørn M Fjellstad for ID, member of Australian butterflies and moths, Facebook group, https://www.facebook.com/groups/799465170167144/
- Agrius godarti (W.S. Macleay, 1826), Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/cf72658d-bef6-4ea2-9b87-228f9ec2ff69
- Godart’s Hawkmoth (Agrius godarti), iNaturalistAU, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/490871-Agrius-godarti
- Agrius godarti (Godart’s Hawkmoth), ausemade, iNaturalistAU, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/192535048
Alice Springs MothsAustralian Striped Hawk Moth (Hyles livornicoides) Bag-shelter Moth & Processionary Caterpillar Chasmina pulchra (White Beauty) Cossid Moth (Endoxyla leucomochla) Godart’s Hawkmoth (Agrius godarti) Helicoverpa punctigera (Australian Fruitworm) Laced Day-Moth (Ipanica cornigera) Leptocneria binotata Mocis alterna (Bean Looper Moth) Owlet Moth (Eudesmeola lawsoni) Sameodes cancellalis (Banded Pearl) Yeperenye / Yipirinya
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