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iNaturalist is an American 501 nonprofit social network of naturalists, citizen scientists, and biologists built on the concept of mapping and sharing observations of biodiversity across the globe. iN
Taking a photo of Asclepias amplexicaulis (clasping milkweed) for iNaturalist
Titanomis
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Titanomis is a genus of moths containing a single species, Titanomis sisyrota, also known as the frosted phoenix. Taxonomists are currently unable to place this moth within an existing superfamily. Th
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…observations of unfamiliar scorpions as the first step in their eventual description of two new species (Paruroctonus soda and Paruroctonus conclusus). The frosted phoenix moth of New Zealand, feared extinct, was "rediscovered" when a Swedish birder who was in town to see kiwi put up a light to attract moths and snapped a…
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Illustrated by George Vernon Hudson in his 1928 Butterflies and Moths of New Zealand
A female specimen of Titanomis sisyrota
Waipapa Dam