I found this beautiful moth inside the house in Jonggol, West Java, Indonesia. So I moved it to the backyard. When I hold it, the moth spread the feathers in its tail and moving its tail up and down. Pretty scary ... and exciting. Maybe it is a way to scare the intruder.
Classification of moth: Dudusa vethi Snellen
| system | Vitae - living organisms |
| domain | Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis, 1978 - lifeforms with nucletic cells |
| superregnum | Unikonta |
| Opisthokonta Cavalier-Smith, 1987b | |
| kingdom | Animalia Linnaeus, 1758 - animals |
| subregnum | Eumetazoa Butschli, 1910 |
| divisio | Bilateria Hatschek, 1888 |
| subdivisio | Protostomia Grobben, 1908 - protostomes |
| phylum | Arthropoda - arthropods |
| subphylum | Hexapoda Blainville, 1816 |
| class | Insecta - insects |
| subclass | Pterygota |
| infraclass | Neoptera Martynov, 1923 |
| cohors | Holometabola |
| order | Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758 - butterflies and moths |
| suborder | Glossata |
| infraorder | Heteroneura |
| falanga | Ditrysia |
| superfamily | Noctuoidea Latreille, 1809 |
| family | Notodontidae Stephens, 1829 - Prominent Moths |
| subfamily | Dudusiinae |
| genus | Dudusa Walker, 1865 |
| species | Dudusa vethi Snellen, 1892 |
| source | www.biolib.cz/en/taxonposition/id274360/ |
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The moth spread the feathers in its tail and moving its tail up and down to scare the intruder.
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Camera: Sony Ericsson K800i
Location: Jonggol, West Java , Indonesia
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