Two-spots Tiger Moths - Asota plagiata
Family Aganaidae
- Body length 25mm
- The moth has brown forewings with veins visible in white colour, and a white spot in the middle.
- We took the first picture on the wall outside our house in a summer night 2002. The above second picture taken in our front yard on Jan 2005.
- Their caterpillars are dark brown with white markings, feed on Ficus macrophylla.
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- Reference:
- 1. Asota plagiata - Insects of Townsville, Australia - Graeme Cocks.
- 2. Asota plagiata (Walker, 1854) - Australian Caterpillars by Don Herbison-Evans & Stella Crossley, 2007.
- 3. A Guide to Australian Moths - Paul Zborowski, Ted Edwards, CSIRO PUBLISHING, 2007, p184.
- 4. Moths
of Australia - I. F. B. Common, Melbourne University Press,
1990, p441, pl.19.28.
This page contains pictures and information about Two-spots Tiger Moths that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
