Notodontidae

plural noun

No·​to·​don·​ti·​dae

: an extensive family of moths which resemble the Noctuidae but are distinguished from them chiefly by the venation of the forewings and whose larvae are usually naked and often of grotesque form with humps, spines, or fleshy processes compare lobster moth, puss moth

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from Notodonta, type genus (from not- + -odonta) + -idae

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