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Agapema dyari - Hodges#7754.2 (Agapema dyari)
Photo#54998
Copyright © 2006
tony gallucci
Chihuahuan Agapema, Agapema dyari -
Agapema dyari
San Antonio Canyon, Chinati Mountains, at light set, Presidio County, Texas, USA
September 8, 2005
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Contributed by
tony gallucci
on 1 June, 2006 - 12:16am
Last updated 14 June, 2006 - 3:12pm
Hi folks,A bit of his
Hi folks,
A bit of history on this bug -- it was posted on TX-Butterfly at the time of the observation. The specimen is now in the collection at UT-Austin. The determination was made by
Agapema
monographer Ric Peigler (Peigler, R.S. & R.O. Kendall. 1993. A Review of the Genus
Agapema
(Lepidoptera: Saturniidae). Proceedings of the Denver Museum of Natural History (3)5:1-22.). There is a confusion among the names,
A. dyari
and
A. galbina
are different taxa, and
A. dyari
is fairly well known recently from the Trans-Pecos of Texas.
here is another recent individual:
http://www.naba.org/chapters/nabast/agapema.html
tg
tony gallucci
hunt, kerr county, texas, usa
http://milkriver.blogspot.com
http://kerrfauna.blogspot.com
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tony gallucci
, 1 June, 2006 - 9:33pm
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I've made a guide page
and moved this one to it. It was languishing too long unrecognized. :)
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Hannah Nendick-Mason
, 14 June, 2006 - 3:15pm
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Thank you! tony g
Thank you!
tony g
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tony gallucci
, 14 June, 2006 - 5:32pm
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This is beautiful!
I would make a guide page, but I've been waiting for someone (an editor, that is) more knowledgeable than me to weigh in on the taxonomy. According to
All-Leps
, dyari appears to be an old name for A. galpina.
And if I have this correct, then this species has not been reported in the US since 1960, according to
this page
.
How come no-one but me has left a comment on this one yet?! This is very exciting!
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Hannah Nendick-Mason
, 1 June, 2006 - 9:11pm
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Ungodly
Lovely moth. Looks like a major Texas rarity. The guys at TX leps should hear about this population if this canyon holds one.
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Herschel Raney
, 1 June, 2006 - 9:18pm
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