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  2. Hyalophora cecropia - Wikipedia

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    Hyalophora cecropia, the cecropia moth, is North America's largest native moth. [1] It is a member of the family Saturniidae , or giant silk moths. Females have been documented with a wingspan of five to seven inches (13 to 18 cm) or more.

  3. Antheraea polyphemus - Wikipedia

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    Antheraea polyphemus, the Polyphemus moth, is a North American member of the family Saturniidae, the giant silk moths. It is a tan-colored moth , with an average wingspan of 15 cm (6 in). The most notable feature of the moth is its large, purplish eyespots on its two hindwings .

  4. Lists of moths - Wikipedia

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    This article is a list of lists of some of the 160,000 species of Lepidoptera that are commonly known as moths. By region. Lists of Lepidoptera by region;

  5. Ohio quarantines 6 counties to contain invasive moth - AOL

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    State officials announced a quarantine for six southwest Ohio counties to help contain the box tree moth, an invasive species. The quarantine follows similar measures in New York and Michigan in ...

  6. List of moths of North America - Wikipedia

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    The moths (mostly nocturnal) and butterflies (mostly diurnal) together make up the taxonomic order Lepidoptera. This list is sorted by MONA number (sometimes called a Hodges number), a numbering system for North American moths introduced by Ronald W. Hodges , et al. in 1983 in the publication Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of ...

  7. Saturniidae - Wikipedia

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    Saturniidae, members of which are commonly named the saturniids, is a family of Lepidoptera with an estimated 2,300 described species. [1] The family contains some of the largest species of moths in the world.

  8. Automeris io - Wikipedia

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    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 ]

  9. Luna moth - Wikipedia

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    Described and named Phalena plumata caudata by James Petiver in 1700, this was the first North American saturniid to be reported in the insect literature. [2] The initial Latin name, which roughly translates to "brilliant, feather tail", [9] was replaced when Carl Linnaeus described the species in 1758 in the tenth edition of Systema Naturae, and renamed it Phalaena luna, later Actias luna ...