An all new species of moth has been found in the Appalachian Mountains and has been named Cherokeea attakullakulla. The moth gets its name from Attakullakulla, a Cherokee chief that lived in that region in the 1700s.
This particular moth was first discovered in 1958 by Dr. John G. Franclemont, a professor at Cornell University. Back then he studied some insects that he had collected in North Carolina and though he noticed this new species to be all different than the rest, that time he did not realize that he was dealing with a whole new species.
Four decades after this first discovery, biologist Dr. J. Bolling Sullivan partnered up with retired entomologist Dr. Eric Quinter and the two of them studied this new moth and finally named this new species.
The appearance of this new species of moth is small, drab and highly inconspicuous and is found in one of the world's read more
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