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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Moths » Bombycoidea » Giant Silkworm and Royal Moths (Saturniidae) » Silkmoths (Saturniinae) » Attacini » Hyalophora

Genus Hyalophora

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large moth or butterfly - Hyalophora cecropia - male Caterpillar?? - Hyalophora cecropia Butterfly or Moth? - Hyalophora cecropia Cecropia Moth - Hyalophora cecropia - female ?Mating Moths? - Hyalophora cecropia - male - female Unknown moth - Hyalophora cecropia Moth I believe, found on may 25th, 2009. There are 2 of them connected at the abdomen in the picture - Hyalophora cecropia - male - female Ceanothus Silkmoth - Hyalophora euryalus - Hyalophora euryalus
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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 Saturniinae (Silkmoths)
Tribe Attacini
Genus Hyalophora
Explanation of Names
Hyalophora is apparently from Greek Hyalos (υαλος)- "glass" and phoros (φορος)- "bearing, carrying"
Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 5 July, 2004 - 8:50pm
Additional contributions by Chuck Entz
Last updated 9 September, 2007 - 7:05pm

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