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Saturniidae
890042.2 – 7744.3   Hemileuca peigleri Lemaire, 1981

© Tony Gallucci
Similar Species:
  • Pinned specimens of related species. (Hint: select View by Region on the related species page.)
Synonymy:
  • peigleri Lemaire, 1981 (Hemileuca)
  • Taxonomic Notes: Hemileuca peigleri listed as a valid species by St Laurent in Pohl & Nanz (eds.) (2023) following Kitching & Rougerie et al. (2018), was formerly treated as a subspecies of Hemileuca maia (Drury, 1773), Tuskes et al. (1996).
    References
    • Barcode of Life (BOLD) - Caution: DNA barcode provides evidence of relatedness, not proof of identification, and some BOLD specimens shown may not be sequenced.
    • Pohl, G. R. and S. R. Nanz (eds.), 2023. Annotated Taxonomic Checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico. Wedge Entomological Research Foundation, Bakersfield, California, xiv + 580 pp. (order).
    • Species Page at BugGuide.Net
    • Tuskes, P.M., J.P. Tuttle, M.M. Collins, 1996. The wild silk moths of North America: a natural history of the Saturniidae of the United States and Canada. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY & London, UK, available in Books to Borrow at Internet Archive.
    Hemileuca peigleri
    © Tony Gallucci
    Hemileuca peigleri
    © Jeff Smith
    Hemileuca peigleri
    © Jeff Smith

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