Yellow Tiger Moth - Agape chloropyga
Family Aganaidae
This page contains pictures and information about Yellow Tiger Moths that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- Body length 40mm
- The 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.
- We found this moth flying in the open car park outside Brisbane Botanic Garden during the day in early winter. It always landed on cars. The above pictures were taken when the moth rested on a blue car and then a red car.
- Next year late summer, we found another Yellow Tiger Moth rest on fig tree in late afternoon.
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- Length 30mm
- Their caterpillars are brown in colour with sparse hairs. They usually rest with last two segments raised in air.
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- The caterpillar feeds on Fig tree Ficus sp. leaves (second picture above). We raised this caterpillar once without success.
- Reference:
- 1. Wildlife of Tropical North Queensland - Queensland Museum Publications 2000, p126.
- 2. Agape chloropyga - Australian Caterpillars by Don Herbison-Evans & Stella Crossley, 2007.
