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Hemileuca electra caterpillar? - Hemileuca electra
Copyright © 2009 Lynn Monroe

Hemileuca electra caterpillar? - Hemileuca electra
Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, San Diego County, California, USA
March 6, 1997
Size: BL~15 mm
We saw this cat and many more on Buckwheat in Upper Tubb Canyon, elevation about 2200'. It certainly looks like a Hemileucinae cat, and is on the hostplant for Hemileuca electra, the most probable Hemileuca in our area. Is it possible to confirm the genus if not the species? I am also going to post a cat that was photographed about two weeks later in the same locale and Buckwheats.
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Contributed by Lynn Monroe on 13 November, 2009 - 6:37pm
Last updated 14 November, 2009 - 10:10am

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Moved from ID Request.
… John F. Carr, 14 November, 2009 - 10:10am login or register to post comments

Hemileuca electra electra
It is either Hemileuca electra electra or H. electra mojavensis

Bill Oehlke
… Bill Oehlke, 13 November, 2009 - 6:57pm login or register to post comments

 
Hemileuca electra
Thank you so much for identifying this cat. I have just posted the adult: http://bugguide.net/node/view/351944. in Tuskes and McElfresh, 1995, this would be considered the "Western Lower Colorado Desert Population", right on the western edge of the Colorado Desert. The article writes that this population has similarities with both nominate H. electra and H. electra mojavensis, but was distinctive. Has this changed?
… Lynn Monroe, 14 November, 2009 - 8:51am login or register to post comments

 
definitely H. electra
so I will post a forum for a guide page.
… roar, 13 November, 2009 - 7:44pm login or register to post comments

 
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THanks. I just posted a pic of the adult.
… Lynn Monroe, 14 November, 2009 - 8:57am login or register to post comments

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