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Actias luna (luna moth)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The luna moth (Actias luna) is a lime-green, Nearctic Saturniid moth in the family Saturniidae, subfamily Saturniinae. It has a wingspan of up to 114 mm (4.5 in), making it one of the largest moths in North America.
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Infraspecies

Actias luna azteca
Actias luna luna

Attributes

Diet [1]  Herbivore
Hibernates [1]  Yes
Nocturnal [1]  Yes
Wing Span [2]  3.543 inches (.090 m)

Ecosystems

Prey / Diet

Predators

Calosoma scrutator (Fiery searcher)[5]
Dolichovespula maculata (baldfaced hornet)[5]
Eptesicus fuscus (big brown bat)[5]
Sciurus carolinensis (eastern gray squirrel)[5]
Strix varia (Barred Owl)[5]

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External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2Luna Moth, Actias (=Tropaea) luna (Linneaus) (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Saturniidae: Saturniinae), Donald W. Hall, University of Florida, June 2007. Revised June 2012
♦ 3HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 5Study of Northern Virginia Ecology
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0