Amazon Queen Moth

Penthesilea difficilis

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pyralidae

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

Amazon Queen Moth — (c) Morgan Freese, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 8

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Morgan Freese, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionList of moths of North America (MONA 5510–6088), Wikipedia contributors

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