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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 » Southern Flannel Moth - Hodges#4647 (Megalopyge opercularis) » Megalopyge bissesa (Megalopyge opercularis bissesa)

Subspecies Megalopyge opercularis bissesa - Megalopyge bissesa

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Flannel, Slug Caterpillar, Leaf Skeletonizer Moths and kin (Zygaenoidea) » Flannel Moths (Megalopygidae)

The Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. Checklist: Part 2

By Becker, V.O. Megalopygidae. in J.B. Heppner (ed.). in J.B. Heppner (ed.)
Association for Tropical Lepidoptera and Scientific Publishers, 118-122, 1995

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Contributed by Steve Nanz on 15 May, 2018 - 5:27am

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Flannel, Slug Caterpillar, Leaf Skeletonizer Moths and kin (Zygaenoidea)

Revision and phylogeny of the Limacodid-Group families, with evolutionary studies on Slug Caterpillars Lepidoptera: Zygaenoidea

By Marc E. Epstein
Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 582, 1996

56mb PDF download

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Contributed by Randy Hardy on 24 May, 2012 - 5:56pm

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

Descriptions of Some New Moths from Southern California

By Harrison G. Dyar
Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington 10: 52–60, 1908

Available online

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Contributed by Aaron Hunt on 29 April, 2023 - 10:08pm

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

Hadenine Notes and Descriptions (Phalaenidae, Leipidoptera)

By McDunnough, J.
The Canadian Entomologist, Volume 75, Issue 3, March, pp. 43-57, 1943

Available online from Cambridge University Press at this link.

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Contributed by Steve Morris on 30 January, 2023 - 11:34am

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

Lepidoptera, Rhopaloceres and Heteroceres: Indigenous and Exotic, Supplement No. 2

By Strecker, H.
Published by Author, 1899

Maintained online by Biodiversity Heritage Library. There were fifteen publication dates from 1872-1878 with three supplements published from 1898-1900.

Supplement No. 2 available and searchable at this link.

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Contributed by Steve Morris on 30 January, 2023 - 11:09am

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

A revision of the Nacophorini (Lepidoptera, Geometridae)

By Frederick H. Rindge
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History; v.123, article 2, 1961

Available as a free pdf from the AMNH digital repository at this link.

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Contributed by Steve Morris on 24 January, 2023 - 1:51pm

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

DNA barcoding and morphology reveal three cryptic species of Anania in N. America, all distinct from European counterpart

By Yang, Z. et al.
Systematic Entomology - Royal Entomological Society, 2012, Vol. 37-4, Pages 686-705

Publication available online here.

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Contributed by Steve Morris on 30 August, 2022 - 5:36pm

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

Descriptions of new North American moths and larvae

By Dyar, H.G.
Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Science Bulletin, 1906

Dyar, H.G., 1906. Descriptions of new North American moths and larvae. Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Science Bulletin, 1: 193-201.

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Contributed by Steve Nanz on 26 March, 2022 - 5:59am

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