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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Silkworm, Sphinx, and Royal Moths (Bombycoidea) » Giant Silkworm and Royal Moths (Saturniidae) » Silkmoths (Saturniinae) » Attacini » Hyalophora » Columbia Silkmoth - Hodges#7768 (Hyalophora columbia) » Glover's Silkmoth - Hodges#7769 (Hyalophora columbia gloveri)
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Hyalophora gloveri (Sonoran group) - Hyalophora columbia - male
Copyright © 2010 Bill Reynolds

Hyalophora gloveri (Sonoran group) - Hyalophora columbia - Male
Santa Rita Mountains, Madera Canyon, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
July 31, 1999
Collected at lights (attracted to virgin Hyalophora sp. females)
~3:00-4:00 am
5,000-6,000 ft. a.s.l.
Coll. Bill Reynolds & R. Otto

These moths are a bit divergent and distinct from other gloveri. Particularly regarding their coloration, larger size and development of red postmedial scaling, a strange character atypical of gloveri/columbia, but diagnostic in cecropia.

Final Note: These moths may be an ancient blend of several Hyalophora "species" or a remnant complex more closely allied to ancestral forms (???)

Examples from this locality


Additional examples from the Sonoran region of se. AZ

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Contributed by Bill Reynolds on 3 February, 2010 - 4:27pm
Last updated 24 April, 2013 - 1:11pm

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