Species Hemileuca hera - Hera Buckmoth - Hodges#7741

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Hera Buckmoth Caterpillar (Hemileuca hera) - Hemileuca hera

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

No Taxon (Moths)

Superfamily Bombycoidea

Family Saturniidae (Giant Silkworm and Royal Moths)

Subfamily Hemileucinae (Buck and Io Moths)

Tribe Hemileucini

Genus Hemileuca

Species hera (Hera Buckmoth - Hodges#7741)

Hodges Number

7741

Food

Caterpillars feed on basin big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) and sand sagebrush (A. filifolia). Adults do not feed.

Internet References

Butterflies and Moths of North America

Contributed by tom murray on 31 March, 2007 - 10:35pm
Additional contributions by Hannah Nendick-Mason, Ted Kropiewnicki
Last updated 5 October, 2008 - 2:45pm

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