North America’s Promethea moth ( Callosamia promethea) has a link to Greek mythology, too: Prometheus was the Titan who stole ...

The moth has remained overlooked for nearly a century ... than being a single neglected species, Topiris is in fact a genus of 14 species, including 11 species which are new to science.

A tiny, elusive moth species that can only feed on one kind ... “So far I have paid little attention to this genus, but I have almost all the species occurring in the Palatinate through the ...

From these, the moth receives its genus name Argema, meaning 'speckled eye' in Greek. These eyespots are off-putting to predators, making them think that the moth is really a larger, more dangerous ...

The appearance of the insects suggested that the moths they were researching might belong to the same genus as the broken specimen but its substantially degraded nature meant they couldn’t progress ...