Cream-spot tiger moth
- Description
- The bright yellow underwings warn predators that it is distasteful to eat. The cream spots on its forewings help to camouflage it when it is at rest. This specimen was collected by C. W. Holcroft in June 1954 using a mercury vapour light.
- Accession Loan No.
- 53/1976/40
- Collection Class
- Arthropods
- Common Name
- cream-spot tiger moth
- Simple Name
- insect: moth
- Full Name
- Arctia villica (Linnaeus): cream-spot tiger
- Dimensions
- width 40 mm
- Period Classification
- Modern (1945-); Modern (1900-)
- Family Group
- Collector / Excavator
- Holcroft, Mr C W
- Collection Parish
- Bishopsteignton
- Collection Town
- Newton Abbot
- Collection County
- Devon
- Collection Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collection Continent
- Europe
- Phylum
- ARTHROPODA
- Family
- ARCTIIDAE
- Genus
- Arctia
- Species
- villica