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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Flannel, Slug Caterpillar, Leaf Skeletonizer Moths and kin (Zygaenoidea) » Flannel Moths (Megalopygidae) » Megalopyge » Megalopyge lapena - Hodges#4645 (Megalopyge lapena)

Species Megalopyge lapena - Hodges#4645

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New tortricids.

By William Dunham Kearfott
The Canadian Entomologist 37(1): 9-11, 1905

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Contributed by Randy Hardy on 7 November, 2017 - 3:08pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera)

New tortricids from Kaslo, B.C., and the northwest.

By William Dunham Kearfott
The Canadian Entomologist 33(4-5): 109-117, 137-141, 1904

The Canadian Entomologist 33(4): 109-117
The Canadian Entomologist 33(5): 137-141

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Contributed by Randy Hardy on 7 November, 2017 - 8:43am

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera)

New species of American lepidoptera.

By Harrison. G. Dyar
Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 11(1): 19-29, 1909

Dyar, H.G. 1909. New species of American lepidoptera. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 11(1): 19-29

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Contributed by Randy Hardy on 6 November, 2017 - 11:12am

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera)

On some impossible specific names in micro-lepidoptera.

By Edward Meyrick
The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 48: 32-36, 1912

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Contributed by Randy Hardy on 5 November, 2017 - 11:23am

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera)

Presidential address, 2000: Nomenclatural nonsense - flying in the face of a farcical code.

By John W. Brown
Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 55(1): 1-7, 2001

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Contributed by Randy Hardy on 1 November, 2017 - 10:47am

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera)

Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Texas. Texas Lep. Survey, Publ. No. 6.

By Ed Knudson & Charles Bordelon
Texas Lepidoptera Survey, 2010

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Contributed by Chuck Sexton on 29 September, 2017 - 5:38pm

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Moths of North Dakota

By Dr. Gerald M. Fauske
North Dakota State University

An online moth identification guide
Moths of North Dakota

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Contributed by Robert Lord Zimlich on 12 September, 2017 - 10:55pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera)

New Moths from Mexico

By Harrison G. Dyar
Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus, 7: 162-164, 1919

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Contributed by Kyhl Austin on 17 August, 2017 - 4:08pm

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