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The pictured Automeris io neomexicana (f) (io moth, neomexicana subspecies) developed from a larva found by Rick Buss, who raised, spread and provided it to me for photographing and submission to Bugguide so that local variation of the subspecies is represented. A male, collected from the same site and raised together, is posted here. More information about the subspecies is presented in the description of a BG image of another female collected from the same general area.

The larva was found with several others on 10AUG2007 on clammy locust (Robinia neomexicana) on La Luz Trail (No. 137) Sandia Mountain Wilderness, Bernalillo County, New Mexico at N35 12.753, W106 27.996, 8140' elevation. It, along with several other larvae, were collected and supplied with locust cuttings until they pupated some time between 18AUG2007 and 08SEP2007 (during which time they were unmonitored). It eclosed 18MAR2008. They were kept in a terrarium in the shade outdoors all winter in Albuquerque at a much lower (warmer) altitude (~5000 ft), so the eclosure date was likely accelerated.