White Tussock Moth
S2, Female, dorsal
White Tussock Moth
S5, Female, dorsal
| White Tussock Moth S2, Female, dorsal | | White Tussock Moth S5, Female, dorsal | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera) | ||||
| Family: | Tiger Moth (:Noctuoidea Erebidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | White Tussock Moth (Acyphas chionitis) | ||||
| This Photo: | S3, Adult, dorsal | ||||
General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills and elsewhere ~10mm long, ~32mm wingspan. These are very difficult to separate from A. semiochrea. We have used the lack of any orange on the face & legs to put them in this group. They seem to inhabit the same regions. The females use their orange/yellow ventral tuft to cover their eggs for protection. When we caught S5, she laid some eggs in the pot as shown here. They are <1mm diameter each. The larger egg mass shown is ~4mm wide. | |||||
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