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Species Actias luna - Luna Moth - Hodges#7758


Catalog of Parasitoids of Saturniidae of the World
By Richard S. Peigler
Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera, Vol. 33: 1-121, 1996
Curiously, despite "1994" being in the header, the footer states, "Paper submitted 5 February 1996; revised manuscript accepted 15 March 1996."

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The Moths of America north of Mexico. Fascicle 20.2B. Bombycoidea. Saturniidae. Hemileucinae (part), Saturniinae.
By Douglas C. Ferguson
The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation, 1972
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Fascicle 20.2A. Saturniidae: Citheroniinae, Hemileucinae (part). (1)

A global checklist of the Bombycoidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera)
By Kitching, I., R. Rougerie, A. Zwick, C. Hamilton, R. St Laurent, S. Naumann, L. Ballesteros Mejia, A. Kawahara
Biodiversity Data Journal, 6: e22236., 2018
Kitching, I., R. Rougerie, A. Zwick, C. Hamilton, R. St Laurent, S. Naumann, L. Ballesteros Mejia, A. Kawahara, 2018. A global checklist of the Bombycoidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera). Biodiversity Data Journal, 6: e22236.

View paper at pensoft.net here. Scroll to bottom for link to excel spreadsheet.

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Bombycine moths of America north of Mexico, including their transformations and origin of the larval markings and armature.
By Alpheus S. Packard
Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences 7: 5-390, 1895
Packard, A.S., 1895. Bombycine moths of America north of Mexico, including their transformations and origin of the larval markings and armature. Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences 7: 5-390.

Annotated Taxonomic Checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico
By Pohl, G. R. and S. R. Nanz (eds.)
Wedge Entomological Research Foundation, 2023
• Pohl, G. R. and S. R. Nanz (eds.), 2023. Annotated Taxonomic Checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico. Wedge Entomological Research Foundation, Bakersfield, California, xiv + 580 pp. (order).

• Pohl & Nanz (eds.) (2023) checklist in spreadsheet (Excel) format (download).

Editors - When citing this work, please be sure to include the (eds.) after Pohl & Nanz to avoid confusion over authorship. If you have a copy of the book, it would be best to cite with the chapter author, i.e.

Descriptions of Some New Moths from Southern California
By Harrison G. Dyar
Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington 10: 52–60, 1908

Hadenine Notes and Descriptions (Phalaenidae, Leipidoptera)
By McDunnough, J.
The Canadian Entomologist, Volume 75, Issue 3, March, pp. 43-57, 1943
Available online from Cambridge University Press at this link.

Lepidoptera, Rhopaloceres and Heteroceres: Indigenous and Exotic, Supplement No. 2
By Strecker, H.
Published by Author, 1899
Maintained online by Biodiversity Heritage Library. There were fifteen publication dates from 1872-1878 with three supplements published from 1898-1900.

Supplement No. 2 available and searchable at this link.