White-spotted Owl Moth: Female, Orange Underhairs

White-spotted Owl Moth (Donuca spectabilis)

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)

Order:

Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera)

Family:

Tiger Moth (:Noctuoidea Erebidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

White-spotted Owl Moth (Donuca spectabilis)

This Photo:

🔍Female, Orange Underhairs🔎

Thank you David Muirhead for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found in the Flinders Ranges and possibly elsewhere
~25mm long, ~60mm wingspan.
These are a large moth with an orange tip to the last third of it's abdomen and orange hair underneath.

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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