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Black-olive Caterpillar Moth

Garella nilotica

Classification

Class
Insecta
Family
Nolidae

Garella nilotica, the black-olive caterpillar or bungee caterpillar, is a moth of the family Nolidae. It was described by Alois Friedrich Rogenhofer in 1881. It has a pantropical distribution, including the eastern North America (from Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New York south to Florida and Texas), the Caribbean, the Iberian Peninsula, Australia, Guam, Fiji, Samoa, the Galápagos Islands and the Chagos Archipelago.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Spain · 20Italy · 3France · 2