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Saturniidae 890042 – 7731   Hemileuca nevadensis Stretch, 1872              Nevada Buck Moth

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Similar Species: Pinned specimens of related species. (Hint: select View by Region on the related species page.) Synonymy: nevadensis Stretch, 1872 (Hemileuca) - MONA 1983: 7731; TL: Dayton, NV. artemis Packard, 1893 (Hemileuca) N. SYN. - MONA 1983: 7731.1; TL: Mesilla Valley, Las Cruces, NM. californica Wright, 1888 (Hemileuca); TL: "Southern California". latifascia Barnes & McDunnough, 1916 (Hemileuca); TL: Aweme, MB. Taxonomic Notes: Hemileuca nevadensis Stretch, 1872 includes as a new synonym Hemileuca artemis Packard, 1893 (St Laurent in Pohl & Nanz (eds.) 2023) and Tuttle (2023). For a more in information, see St Laurent in Pohl & Nanz (eds.) (2023), Lemaire (2002), Dupuis et al. (2018).

References (Caution: DNA barcoding at BOLD provides evidence of relatedness, not proof of identification; some BOLD specimens shown may not be sequenced.)

Barcode of Life (BOLD) Barnes, W.M. & J.H. McDunnough, 1916. Some new races and species of North American Lepidoptera. The Canadian Entomologist, 48: 224. Dupuis, J.R., R.S. Peigler, S.M. Geib & D. Rubinoff, 2018. Phylogenomics supports incongruence between ecological specialization and taxonomy in a charismatic clade of buck moths. Molecular Ecology, 27(22): 4417-4429. Ferguson, D. C., 1971. Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 20.2a: p. 119; pl. 8.12-21. order or free PDF Kitching, I., R. Rougerie, A. Zwick, C. Hamilton, R. St Laurent, S. Naumann, L. Ballesteros Mejia, A. Kawahara, 2018. A global checklist of the Bombycoidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera). Biodiversity Data Journal, 6: e22236. Lemaire, C., 2002. Hemileucinae. The Saturniidae of America (3 volume set), 4: 1,388 pages. 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). Powell, J. A. & P. A. Opler, 2009. Moths of Western North America, Pl. 36.3m; p. 238. Book Review and ordering Species Page at BugGuide.Net Species Page at E. H. Strickland Museum Species Page at Pacific Northwest Moths Species page at Moths of North Dakota. Stretch, R.H., 1872. Illustrations of the Zygænidæ & Bombycidæ of North America, 1: 108; pl. 4, fig. 10. Tuttle, J.P., 2023. Returning Hemileuca artemis Packard to Synonymy with Hemileuca nevadensis Stretch (Hemileucinae: Saturniidae). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society, 77(4): 247-252. Wright, W.G., 1888. Description of a new Hemileuca. The Canadian Entomologist, 20: 31.

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