Double Yellow-patched Footman: Male, profile

Double Yellow-patched Footman (Termessa zonophanes)

Class:

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

Order:

Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera)

Family:

Tiger Moth (Noctuoidea:Erebidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Double Yellow-patched Footman (Termessa zonophanes)

This Photo:

🔍Male, profile🔎

Thank you Prof Victor W Fazio III† for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
~10mm long, ~28mm wingspan. A highly variable species.
Males & Females have filiform antennae, so the only way to separte them is with ventral shots. Of the two we photographed ventrally, they both appeared to be males.

This species is

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

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