Notodontidae {family} - Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera;

Notodontidae is a family of moths with approximately 3,800 known species. The family was described by James Francis Stephens in 1829. Moths of this family are found in all parts of the world, but they are most concentrated in tropical areas, especially in the New World (Miller, 1992). Species of this family tend to be heavy-bodied and long-winged, the wings held folded across the back of the body at rest. They rarely display any bright colours, usually being mainly grey or brown, with the exception of the subfamily Dioptinae (Grimaldi and Engel, 2005). These features mean they rather resemble Noctuidae although the families are not closely related. The adults do not feed. Many species have a tuft of hair on the trailing edge of the forewing which protrudes upwards at rest. This gives them their scientific name "back tooth" and the common name of prominents. The common names of some other species reflect their hairiness, such as puss moth and the group commonly known as kittens (Furcula spp.), so named as they resemble small versions of the puss moth. full article at Wikipedia

Specimen Records:	52,380	Public Records:	44,312
Specimens with Sequences:	48,602	Public Species:	2,330
Specimens with Barcodes:	46,360	Public BINs:	3,387
Species:	2,572
Species With Barcodes:	2,196
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Costa Rica 28620 Brazil 511 Italy 284 United States 2122 Peru 491 French Guiana 260 Canada 1793 Mexico 422 Malaysia 216 Australia 1663 Panama 397 Colombia 210 Paraguay 786 Gabon 368 Ghana 201 China 574 Germany 313 South Africa 166 Ecuador 512 Argentina 286