tropical swallowtail moth

Lyssa Genus is most spectacular in Moths... Right honor for this spotting... Congrats Scott....!!

Congratulations Scott, this beauty has been chosen to represent the moths of Australasia in the blog today! http://blog.projectnoah.org/

Hmm, I have looked to Macleayi before as well, but was not happy with it. If you look on the forewing, in Macleayi there is usually a clearly separated area with a black/dark stripe/area next to the white stripe followed by a slightly brighter area, best seen here: http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/uran/maclea.html and in your link: http://www.ccwild.com/blog/?page_id=1022 and here (scroll down, only a smaller picture below): http://www.leapfrogoz.com.au/LeapFrogOz/Uraniidae.html And in all these links the white stripe is broader than in the one from Scott! This might be an important criteria to separate!? In this shot you can't see this "tricolored" forewings, but again the broader stripe: http://www1.ala.org.au/gallery2/v/Uraniidae/Lyssamacleayi/lyssa_macleayi_01.jpg.html OK, folks, that's what my eyes see! What do you think? And what about Scott? He has to take the final decision ;-)...

http://www.ccwild.com/blog/?page_id=1022

Beautiful!

Lucky punch with both! http://www.flickr.com/photos/17487183@N00/3154393929/in/photostream

I think this might also be Lyssa menoetius? Zampa should have some brighter areas next to the white stripe on the forewing. But I am not sure, just a little to think about... What do you mean?? http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?enlarge=0000+0000+0807+1385 http://www.jpmoth.org/Uraniidae/Uraniinae/Lyssa_zampa.html http://www.flickr.com/photos/8981098@N07/3323601362