Jeweled Tailed Slug Moth

Packardia geminata

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Limacodidae

North American moths represent about 12,000 types of moths. In comparison, there are about 825 species of North American butterflies. The moths (mostly nocturnal) and butterflies (mostly diurnal) together make up the taxonomic order Lepidoptera.

Distribution

Jeweled Tailed Slug Moth — (c) Laura Gaudette, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Laura Gaudette · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 584Canada · 109

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Laura Gaudette, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Laura Gaudette · CC-BY DescriptionList of moths of North America (MONA 4618–5509), Wikipedia contributors

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