A new species of moth from the Appalachian Mountains named to honor the Cherokee Nation

Friday, June 27, 2014 - 10:00 in Paleontology & Archaeology

A small, drab and highly inconspicuous moth has been flitting nameless about its special niche among the middle elevations of one of the world's oldest mountain ranges, the southern Appalachian Mountains in North America. A team of American scientists has now identified this new to science species as Cherokeea attakullakulla and described it in a special issue of the open access journal ZooKeys.

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