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- This family is very closely related with family Arctiidae and
sometimes put as its sub-family. The moths are brightly coloured in orange,
yellow and black. Most of them active during the day.
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 - Aganaidae caterpillar
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- Two-spots Tiger Moth
  - Asota plagiata, body length 25mm
- This moth sometime listed it as a separate family AGANAIDAE, or listed as
a sub-family of ARCTIIDAE. The moths have brown forewings with veins visible
in white colour, and a white spot in the middle. Please click on here
for more information.
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- Yellow Tiger Moth
  - Agape chloropyga, body length 40mm
Caterpillar length 30mm
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moth is yellow in colour with five orange spots on each forewing and some small
black dots on thorax. It abdomen is yellow with black bands and a dark blue
end. Their caterpillars are brown in colour with sparse hairs. They feed on Fig
tree leaves. More information please visit this page.
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Reference:
1. Australian Moths - Common, Ian F.B. Jacaranda Press, 1963, p112
(Hypsidae).
3. Insects
of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, p910.
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