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Species Hemileuca slosseri - Hodges#7744.4

Hemileuca slosseri - Hodges#7744.4 (slosseri) - Hemileuca slosseri - male Hemileuca slosseri - Hodges#7744.4 (slosseri) - Hemileuca slosseri - male Hemileuca slosseri Peigler & Stone - Hemileuca slosseri Hemileuca slosseri - Slosser's buckmoth - Hemileuca slosseri - female Buck moth - Hemileuca slosseri - male Buck moth - Hemileuca slosseri - male Slosser's Buck Moth - Hemileuca slosseri Slosser's Buck Moth - Hemileuca slosseri
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
Superfamily Bombycoidea (Silkworm, Sphinx, and Royal Moths)
Family Saturniidae (Giant Silkworm and Royal Moths)
Subfamily Hemileucinae (Buck and Io Moths)
Tribe Hemileucini
Genus Hemileuca
Species slosseri (Hemileuca slosseri - Hodges#7744.4)
Hodges Number
7744.4
Explanation of Names
Hemileuca slosseri Peigler & Stone, 1989
Patronym for J.E. Slosser who studied the biology of the species.
Size
forewing length: 26-38 mm (1)
Identification
Range
Southeastern New Mexico and western Texas to western Oklahoma. (1),(2)
Map (MPG) - shows incomplete range
Season
Adults fly from early November through December (which is thought to be associated with the first freeze of the season). (3)
Eggs overwinter and hatch in April. (3)
Food
Larval host is Harvard oak (Quercus havardii, Fagaceae) (3)
Remarks
considered by Oklahoma to be a "Species of Greatest Conservation Need" (SGCN) (4)
See Also
Compare to related species on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group
Print References
Peigler, R.S. & S.E. Stone. 1989. Taxonomic and biological notes on the Hemileuca maia complex (Saturniidae) with description of a new species from Texas and New Mexico. Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan. 40(2): 149-166.
Slosser, J.E. 2001. Biology of Hemileuca slosseri (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae), Southwestern Entomologist. 26(4): 291-296. (3)
Works Cited
1.Taxonomic and biological notes on the Hemileuca maia complex (Saturniidae) with description of a new species from Texas and NM.
Peigler, R.S. & S.E. Stone. 1989. Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan. 40(2): 149-166.
2.Checklist of the Lepidoptera of the Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas:....
Charles W. Bordelon, Edward C. Knudson. 1999. Texas Lepidoptera Survey.
3.Biology of Hemileuca slosseri (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae)
Slosser, J.E. 2001. Southwestern Entomologist 26(4): 291-296.
4.Oklahoma "Species of Greatest Conservation Need" (SGCN) - 2005