Amata (genus)

Tiger Moth at Black Mountain

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Amata (genus) 29 Sep 2025 MichaelMulvaney
Amata xanthura 16 Jun 2025 WendyEM
Amata (genus) 29 Jan 2024 donhe
Anestia (genus) 29 Jan 2024 ibaird
Unverified 29 Jan 2024 ConBoekel

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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 ?
ibaird wrote:
   21 Jun 2025
I see a dorsal pattern of spots ( eg. the invertred triamgle shape in dorsal paln view) which seems to be repeated in other moth speciments identified as this species.
https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/1dfc7009-2a78-4587-aee0-9039a40f64de
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?taxon_id=636463
donhe wrote:
   21 Jun 2025
The shapes and sizes and number of the forewing spots do not match those of the Type shown in MOV, but the shapes, sizes, and number of spots is variable, and could be viewed as a match with other Amata species.

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