Nine-spotted moth

Nine-spotted moth
	Male
	Female, ventral view
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Arctiinae
Genus:	Amata
Species:	A. phegea
Binomial name
	Amata phegea; (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
	List Sphinx phegea Linnaeus, 1758 ; Syntomis phegea (Linnaeus, 1758) ; Sphinx ligata Allioni, 1766 ; Zygaena quercus Fabricius, 1793 ; Sphinx iphimedia Esper, [1804] ; Spinx cloelia Esper, 1783 ; Spinx cloelia Esper, [1804] ; Syntomis phegea bessarabica Stauder, 1924 ; Amata phegea bessarabica nat. kijevana Obraztsov, 1936 ; Amata (Syntomis) phegea phegea nat. ukrainica Obraztsov, 1966 ; Syntomis phegea orientalis Daniel, 1950 ;

The nine-spotted moth or yellow belted burnet (Amata phegea, formerly Syntomis phegea) is a moth in the family Erebidae ("tiger moths"). The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae.