Amata trigonophora (Tiger Moth)

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)

The Tiger Moth (Amata trigonophora) is found in the coastal areas of eastern Australia, from Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria, with some sightings on the west coast in the Kimberleys.

From the family Erebidae, subfamily Arctiinae, it has black wings with large orange/yellow spots on the wings and a wingspan approximately 4 cm. The forewings have five large elongated to an almost oval shaped orange/yellow spots, with the spots nearest the wing tips crossed by a narrow black line. The Tiger moth has a black head, the thorax is mainly black with a yellow band at front, and banded black and orange/yellow abdomen.

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Class: Insecta
Informal: Pterygotes
Order: Lepidoptera
Unranked: Ditrysia
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Tribe: Syntomiini
Genus: Amata
Species: Amata trigonophora

Footnote & References

Flickr, Photographs © Marc Newman
Amata trigonophora (Turner, 1898), Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/af445d0c-5e56-470d-82bb-3242017f48e2
Amata trigonophora, iNaturalist, https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/205290-Amata-trigonophora

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