Image: Phloiopsyche eximia and Ophideres atkinsoni
Original watercolour by Harriet Scott (AMS193/7)
- Illustrator:
- Harriet Scott
- Rights:
- © Australian Museum Archives
- Common name:
- Moths
- Scientific name:
- Aenetus eximia(Scott 1869) and Eudocima salaminia (Cramer 1777)
- Family:
- Hepialidae and Noctuidae
- Order:
- Lepidoptera
Additional information
Living on Ash Island near Newcastle, NSW from the 1840s to the 1860s Harriet and Helena Scott completed a magnificent collection of watercolour plates for their father A.W Scott's publication Australian Lepidoptera and Their Transformations (Vol I published 1864 and Vol II 1890-1898). The preliminary drawings and final plates of moths and butterflies were purchased by the Australian Museum in 1884 and are preserved in the Museum's Archives.
The Atlas of Living Australia has more information such as maps, images and collection records for the Common Ghost Moth, Aenetus eximia, and fruit-piercing moth, Eudocima salaminia.
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