Santa Ana tussock moth
Lophocampa annulosa
The Santa Ana tussock moth is a moth that lives in warm parts of the Americas. It belongs to the same big family as the tiger moths. You can find it all the way from Texas and Arizona down to Argentina.
Lives in
From the southwestern United States and Mexico through Central America to South America
What does it eat?
Its caterpillars have been seen eating the leaves of a tropical plant called Aegiphila.
How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Santa Ana tussock moth about 14 km/h (8.7 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
A scientist called Francis Walker described it in 1855.
2
It lives in many countries, from the United States and Mexico to Costa Rica, Brazil, Peru and Argentina.
3
It also lives on the island of Trinidad.
you asked
Most asked questions about Santa Ana tussock moth
?Where does the Santa Ana tussock moth live?
From southern Texas and Arizona through Mexico and Central America to South America.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Lophocampa annulosa
- Named by
- Walker, 1855
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Erebidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Erebidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
Where the facts come from
- Lophocampa annulosa (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Francisco Farriols Sarabia. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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