Dot-underwing moth
The dot-underwing moth is a big moth with greenish grey front wings. When it opens them, you see orange back wings with a black band and a small black dot in the middle. That dot gives it its name.
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Fun facts
The little black dot in the middle of each back wing tells it apart from its cousins.
The male has a bright orange tummy.
The female's front wings have big silvery patches.
A very similar moth in America was once thought to be the same kind, but it is a different species.
Most asked questions about Dot-underwing moth
?Why is it called the dot-underwing?
Because its orange back wings each have a small black dot in the middle.
?How big is the dot-underwing moth?
It is big. Its open wings measure about 6 to 9.6 cm across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Eudocima materna
- Named by
- Linnaeus, 1767
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Erebidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Erebidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania, Africa
Where the facts come from
- Eudocima materna (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Moore, Frederic. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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