Oxytenis modestia
| Oxytenis modestia | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Saturniidae |
| Genus: | Oxytenis |
| Species: | O. modestia |
| Binomial name | |
| Oxytenis modestia (Cramer, 1780) | |
Oxytenis modestia, the Costa Rica leaf moth, dead-leaf moth or tropical American silkworm moth, is a species of moth in the Saturniidae family. It occurs from 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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