Western Australia MothsWA Moth Index Abantiades hydrographus Anomis definata Ardices glatignyi Austropaschia porrigens Ctenoplusia albostriata Hestiochora occidentalis Hippotion celerio (Vine Hawk Moth) Hippotion scrofa (Coprosma Hawk Moth) Myrtartona rufiventris Synemon spp
The species Myrtartona rufiventris is a moth in the family Zygaenidae. Observations have been documented in Western Australia, South Australia and Victoria.
Sometime referred to as Forester Moths, a common name that also applied to moths from other genus and species ie genus Pollanisus.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Hexapoda
- Class: Insecta
- Informal: Pterygotes
- Order: Lepidoptera
- Unranked: Ditrysia
- Superfamily: Zygaenoidea
- Family: Zygaenidae
- Subfamily: Procridinae
- Tribe: Artonini
- Genus: Myrtartona
- Species: Myrtartona rufiventris
Footnote & References
- Myrtartona rufiventris, Photographs © Jean and Fred Hort
- Myrtartona rufiventris (Walker, 1854), Forester Moth, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/17e0c69b-0385-47a4-a70a-74bbd75b8442
- Myrtartona rufiventris, iNaturalist, https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/893851-Myrtartona-rufiventris
Western Australia MothsWA Moth Index Abantiades hydrographus Anomis definata Ardices glatignyi Austropaschia porrigens Ctenoplusia albostriata Hestiochora occidentalis Hippotion celerio (Vine Hawk Moth) Hippotion scrofa (Coprosma Hawk Moth) Myrtartona rufiventris Synemon spp
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