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Lonomia obliqua is a species of saturniid moth ("giant silk moth") from South America. [1] It is famous for its larval form, rather than the adult moth, primarily because of the caterpillar's defense mechanism, urticating bristles that inject a potentially deadly venom.
Lonomia sp.. The genus Lonomia is a moderate-sized group of fairly cryptic saturniid moths from South America, famous not for the adults, but for their highly venomous caterpillars, which are responsible for a few deaths each year, [1] especially in southern Brazil, and the subject of hundreds of published medical studies.
Examples: luna moth (Actias luna) and Polyphemus moth (Antheraea polyphemus). The clicks may serve as aposematic warning signals to a regurgitation defense. [4] Most are solitary feeders, but some are gregarious. The Hemileucinae are gregarious when young and have stinging hairs, [2] and those of Lonomia contain a poison that may kill a human.
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For some, it takes one mere touch of the caterpillar to result in red, raised itchy bumps. "It starts with an itch, it gets red, it swells up, and then it takes several days to get better, and ...
Automeris io, the Io moth or peacock moth, is a colorful North American moth in the family Saturniidae. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The Io moth is also a member of the subfamily Hemileucinae . [ 7 ] The name Io comes from Greek mythology in which Io was a mortal lover of Zeus. [ 8 ]
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