🪲Thysania agrippina
Thysania agrippina is a species of moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Maria Sibylla Merian in her 1705 publication Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, and Pieter Cramer provided the formal description of the species in 1776. The most commonly accepted English name is the white witch. Other common names include the ghost moth, great gray witch and great owlet moth. Thysania agrippina is of interest as a competitor for title of "largest insect". This may be true by the measure of wingspan—a Brazilian specimen with a wingspan of almost 30 cm (12 in) appears to hold the record. The Atlas moth and Hercules moth, however, have greater wing areas. The white witch occurs from Uruguay to Mexico, and appears as a stray as far north as Texas in the U.S. Collection dates shows no discernible pattern with respect to location or season.
Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The IUCN Red List has not assessed Thysania agrippina yet.
- Body mass
- not recorded
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- not recorded
Everything we know about the Thysania agrippina
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
No measurements for Thysania agrippina yet.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumArthropoda
- ›classInsecta
- ›orderLepidoptera
- ›familyErebidae
- ›genusThysania
- ›speciesThysania agrippina
Lineage not available yet.
More about the Thysania agrippina
No videos of the Thysania agrippina yet.
We have 44,653 videos so far, and none of them features this animal yet.
All videos →Compare the Thysania agrippina
Pick a tool — the Thysania agrippina is already selected.
Compare every stat with any other animal.
Stand them on the same floor and see who's bigger.
How speed, brain and bite scale with body size. This animal isn't in the sample yet.
See where it sits in the tree of life.