Two-spots Tiger Moth (Asota plagiata) | Project Noah

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-17.4081, 124.946

Field Notes

Description:

A beautiful yellow moth - has two yellow spots with brown dots inside on the wings. The lower end of the wings are brown, patterned with yellow lines. The wings towards the head are yellow, patterned with black wavy lines. behind the head there are two black dots one behind the other. The eyes are blue as well as the antenna.

Habitat:

Sitting on the rock wall of Windjana Gorge.

Notes:

Thank you SukanyaDatta for the identification!

After some searching I found this site: http://www.lepbarcoding.org/australia/species.php?region=1&id=68225 which (thus far) is the only one I can find that shows this moth being recorded in Western Australia (Lat: -17.511, Long: 124.253) near to where I spotted this one!!!

Further reference: http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/agan/plag.html

Reference Links:

Asota plagiata | Atlas of Living Australia

Species ID Suggestions

Two-spots Tiger Moth

Asota plagiata

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It was a pleasure, particularly since its Indian cousin had popped up in my back yard...it has 2 dots too. Maybe you would like to see: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/1593406004

Thank you for identifying my lovely moth Sukanya!!! After much searching there was only one site I could find that recorded this moth near the same place that I found this one. Everything else I read only showed recordings on the east side of Australia...

Please also see: http://www.brisbaneinsects.com/brisbane_tigermoths/TwoSpotsTiger.htm http://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:0b75c4dd-3117-4728-8cfd-52344d7395f6

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