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I spent a lot of time calling Eressa "Imposter Amata", because they have a lot of shared features with Amata, including the abdomen stripes and wings spots.
Eressa are also very common across Australia, and the feature that generally sets them apart from Amata are their feathery antennae (Except for E. angustipenna), small hind wings and often quite circular wing spots.
Eressa geographica, male
Eressa geographica, male
Look at those gloriously feathery antennae!
Eressa angustipenna
Eressa angustipenna
Look at these ridiculously reduced hindwings!
It's hard to believe these two are in the same genus, right?! I don't believe it either.
There are 7 described species of Eressa Walker, 1854:
E. angustipenna (T.P. Lucas, 1890)
E. geographica (Meyrick, 1886)
E. detola Swinhoe, 1892
E. megalospilia Turner, 1922
E. megatorna Hampson, 1898
E. paurospila Turner, 1922
E. rhysoptila (Turner, 1922)
E. strepsimeris (Meyrick, 1886)
E. xanthostacta Hampson, 1905
E. stenothyris Turner, 1933
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