Bug FAQCruel Toxonprucha
Toxonprucha crudelis · Order: Lepidoptera · Family: Erebidae
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The Cruel Toxonprucha has the MONA or Hodges number 8674. It lives in North America.
Source: Wikipedia
How to recognize it
Its MONA or Hodges number is 8674.
Source: Wikipedia
Where it lives
It is found in North America.
Source: Wikipedia
Where it comes from
It occurs in North America.
Source: Wikipedia
Where it is found in the US
Recorded in 5 of 51 states and DC. Most records: Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, California, Oklahoma.
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Darker = more records. Counts are museum and citizen-science records, not population size.
Source: GBIF
Months it is reported in the US
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Source: GBIF
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- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxonprucha_crudelis
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Text written 2026-10-23 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-23.