Tiger moths (Arctiinae)

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Tiger moths (Arctiinae)

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WendyEM wrote:

Yesterday

Hemonia micrommata
https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimens.php?taxid=21589
https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations?place_id=6744&preferred_place_id=6744&quality_grade=research&taxon_id=145580
https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/818e1c05-4c57-40a9-92b4-52a7acf62dd0#names

Hemonia micrommata

donhe wrote:

16 Jun 2025

I see nothing distinguishing this from several other Amata species, given the variability of the details of the forewing spots ?

Amata xanthura

ibaird wrote:

15 Jun 2025

Unlilkely to be Termessa (genus) I would think,

Eressa geographica

donhe wrote:

14 Jun 2025

Forewing and yellow marks on head and thorax look like Eressa, Perhaps Eressa strepsimeris or Eressa geographica.

Eressa geographica

donhe wrote:

7 Jun 2025

Reorienting and rescaling a copy of this photo to match a forewing with those in
http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/arct/cten-wings.html
one can see it is a long way from say A. annulata and from A. chlorometis,
but is as close to A. humeralis and A. orphnaea as it it is to A. aperta.

Amata nr aperta