Artiidae - Tiger Moths

Insects of Townsville, Australia - Graeme Cocks

Arctiidae

Tiger moths. A large family of often aposematically coloured moths. Many are distasteful to predators. They possess a thoracic tymbal organ which produces ultrasonic clicks thought to disrupt the echolocation of bats. Most are nocturnal but some are diurnal. [280 Aust. species]


Aloa marginata	Amerila rubripes	Amerila timolis	Amata aperta


Amata sp. 2	Amata sp. 7	Amata sp. 9	Amata sp. 10


Amata sp. 11	Amata sp. 14	Amata sp. 15	Argina astrea


Asura bipars	Asura monospila	Asura polyspila	Asura sp. 1


Creatonotos gangis	Eilema plana	Eressa geographica	Eutane terminalis


Eutane terminalis PS1	Eutane trimochla	Heliosia jucunda	Heliosia jucanda PS2


Heterallactis microcrysa	Heterallactis stenochrysa	Heterotropa fastosa	Lambula obliquilinea


Lyclene reticulata	Manulea dorsalis	Manulea dorsalis	Nyctemera amicus


Nyctemera baulus	Nyctemera secundiana	Paralacydes maculifascia	Philenora aspectalella


Scaptesyle sp. 2	Schistophleps albida	Thallarcha macilenta	Thallarcha levis


Thallarcha sparsana	Utetheisa aegrotum	Thallarcha sp. 7	Utetheisa lotrix


Utetheisa pulchelloides	Utetheisa sp.	Thallarcha phalarota


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