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Creatonotos gangis, the Baphomet moth [2] or Australian horror moth, is a species of arctiine moth in South East Asia and Australia. It was described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1763 Centuria Insectorum .
Zygaena filipendulae has a wingspan of 30–40 mm (1.2–1.6 in). The sexes are similar. The fore wings are dark metallic green with six vivid red spots (sometimes the spots are merged causing possible confusion with other species such as the five-spot burnet.
Bombykol is a pheromone released by the female silkworm moth to attract mates. It is also the sex pheromone in the wild silk moth ( Bombyx mandarina ). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Discovered by Adolf Butenandt in 1959, it was the first pheromone to be characterized chemically.
The female mates and lays her grey-yellow eggs in large numbers on her fine-meshed cocoon. The adult moths do not feed, so they only live for a short time. The two (sometimes three) generations fly from May till October; in North America, only one generation occurs in a year. [ 9 ]
While the butterflies form a monophyletic group, the moths, which comprise the rest of the Lepidoptera, do not. Many attempts have been made to group the superfamilies of the Lepidoptera into natural groups, most of which fail because one of the two groups is not monophyletic: Microlepidoptera and Macrolepidoptera, Heterocera and Rhopalocera, Jugatae and Frenatae, Monotrysia and Ditrysia.
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Adult Essex skipper (Thymelicus lineola) Pupa of a sphingid moth Caterpillar of the subfamily Arctiinae Eggs of the buff-tip (Phalera bucephala), a notodontid moth The external morphology of Lepidoptera is the physiological structure of the bodies of insects belonging to the order Lepidoptera , also known as butterflies and moths .
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 .