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Saturniidae 890046 – 7733   Hemileuca grotei Grote & Robinson, 1868              Grote's Buck Moth

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Similar Species: Pinned specimens of related species. (Hint: select View by Region on the related species page.) Synonymy: grotei Grote & Robinson, 1868 (Hemileuca) - MONA 1983: 7733 ssp. a. grotei Grote & Robinson, 1868 (Hemileuca) - MONA 1983: 7733 ssp. b. diana Packard, 1874 (Hemileuca) - MONA 1983: 7734   Note: This subspecies continues to be treated as full species by some authors. Taxonomic Notes: Hemileuca grotei Grote & Robinson, 1868 includes as a subspecies Hemileuca diana in St Laurent (in Pohl & Nanz (eds.) 2023) following 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. Ferguson, D. C., 1971. Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 20.2a: p. 123; pl. 8.3, 11.7. order or free PDF Ferguson, D. C., 1971. Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 20.2a: p. 124; pl. 8.4-5. order or free PDF Grote A.R. & C.T. Robinson, 1868. Descriptions of American Lepidoptera. No. 4. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 2: 192. Lemaire, C., 2002. Hemileucinae. The Saturniidae of America (3 volume set), 4: 1,388 pages. 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.

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