Tropical American Silkworm Moth

Tropical American Silkworm Moth
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Saturniidae
Genus:	Oxytenis
Species:	O. modestia
Binomial name
Oxytenis modestia (K. Jordan, 1924)

Distribution: Guatemala to northern South America.

Methods Of Identification: adult illustrated in black and white by Scoble (1992) p. 356, fig. 300 and by Jordan (1924) pl. 7, fig. 8.

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