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)
Species Anthela guenei (Newman, 1856), whose common name is Four-spot Anthelid Moth, although Atlas of Living Australia has the common name as Eight-Spot Anthelid. When the moth is in a rest position with the fore-wings folded back on top of the hind-wings, it appears to have “four spots”. When the hind-wings are revealed, another set of four spots are revealed, making a total of “eight spots” on the moth. Hence the other common name of Eight-Spot Anthelid.
The male of the species have a wingspan of approximately 3.5 cm, whilts the female moth have a wingspan of about 4.5 cm.
Anthela guenei was previously known as Teara guenei.
The underside of Anthela guenei. You can see a chuck has been taken out of the underside hind-wing.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Hexapoda
- Class: Insecta
- Informal: Pterygotes
- Order: Lepidoptera
- Unranked: Ditrysia
- Superfamily: Bombycoidea
- Family: Anthelidae
- Subfamily: Anthelinae
- Genus: Anthela
- Species: Anthela guenei
Footnote & References
- Anthela guenei, Flickr © Marc Newman
- Anthela guenei, Flickr © Michael Jefferies,
- Anthela guenei (Newman, 1856), Eight-Spot Anthelid, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/db3c0de2-e932-4fb1-bec9-630c2006f8d1
- Anthela guenei (Newman, 1856), Australian Moths Online, CSIRO, https://moths.csiro.au/species_taxonomy/anthela-guenei/
- Anthela guenei (Newman, 1856), Four-Spot Anthelid, Australian Caterpillars and their Butterflies and Moths, https://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/anth/guenei.html
- Anthela guenei (Newman, 1856), Lepidoptera, https://lepiforum.org/wiki/page/Anthela_guenei_En
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