Southern Downs Buterflies & MothsAloa marginata (Donovan’s Tiger Moth) Amata trigonophora (Tiger Moth) Candalides xanthospilos (Yellow-spot Blue) Cephonodes kingii (Day Flying Hawk Moth) Genduara punctigera (Crexa Moth) Opodiphthera loranthi (Emperor Moth) Papilio aegeus aegeus (Orchard Butterfly) Tirumala hamata (Blue Tiger)
Known as the Emperor Moth (Opodiphthera loranthi), the adult moth is a rusty brown with wingtips that have a wrinkled appearance. There is a single brown eyespot in the middle of each wing, with a black submarginal band on each wing, and a black costa to the forewings (the costal region or margin is an area at the front edge of an insect wing). The Emperor Moth is a magnificent large mont with a wingspan up to 14 cm.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Hexapoda
- Class: Insecta
- Informal: Pterygotes
- Order: Lepidoptera
- Unranked: Ditrysia
- Superfamily: Sphingoidea
- Family: Sphingidae
- Subfamily: Macroglossinae
- Genus: Cephonodes
- Species: Cephonodes kingii
Footnote & References
- Flickr, Photographs © Marc Newman
- Opodiphthera loranthi (T.P. Lucas, 1891), Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/86175a79-7947-4730-83a3-f7470a8e6b93
- Opodiphthera loranthi, Australian Moths Online, CSIRO, https://moths.csiro.au/species_taxonomy/opodiphthera-loranthi/
Southern Downs Buterflies & MothsAloa marginata (Donovan’s Tiger Moth) Amata trigonophora (Tiger Moth) Candalides xanthospilos (Yellow-spot Blue) Cephonodes kingii (Day Flying Hawk Moth) Genduara punctigera (Crexa Moth) Opodiphthera loranthi (Emperor Moth) Papilio aegeus aegeus (Orchard Butterfly) Tirumala hamata (Blue Tiger)
Southern Downs InsectsSouthern Downs Beetles Southern Downs Buterflies & Moths Australian Emperor Scarlet Percher
Southern Downs QLDSouthern Downs Fauna Southern Downs Bees Southern Downs Birds Southern Downs Crustacean Southern Downs Frogs Southern Downs Insects Southern Downs Marsupials Southern Downs Reptiles Southern Downs Spiders
QueenslandGold Coast Region Lamington National Park Southern Downs QLD