Tropical American Silkworm Moth

Tropical American Silkworm Moth
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Saturniidae
Genus: Oxytenis
Species: O. modestia
Binomial name
Oxytenis modestia
(Cramer, 1780)

Distribution: Guatemala to northern South America.

Methods Of Identification: adult illustrated in black and white by Scoble (1992) p. 356, fig. 300 and by Jordan (1924) pl. 7, fig. 8.


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