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Argentala
Argentala is a genus of moths of the family Notodontidae. The genus contains six species of moths that are native to Central and South America, being found from Guanacaste in Costa Rica south to southern Ecuador. Moths in this genus only inhabit cloud forests. They have chocolate to blackish-brown forewings and darker brown hindwings. The underside of the hindwing is largely silvery-white in all species, a characteristic that lends the genus its name. The length of the forewings is 12.0–16.0 mm for males and 14.0–16.5 mm for females.
6 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Argentala subcoerulea
speciesArgentala subcoerulea
Argentala argoptera
speciesArgentala argoptera
Argentala brehmi
speciesArgentala brehmi
Argentala subalba
speciesArgentala subalba
Argentala subcaesia
speciesArgentala subcaesia
Argentala mesitana
speciesArgentala mesitana
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 886942.