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Hyalophora gloveri - Hyalophora columbia - male
Copyright © 2006 Zak Van Loocke

Hyalophora gloveri - Hyalophora columbia - Male
Madera Canyon, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
July 22, 2006
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Contributed by Zak Van Loocke on 14 February, 2007 - 4:17pm
Last updated 16 February, 2007 - 7:23am

Congrats!
Color is much better, plus this is a first for Arizona, as far as I can tell.
… Ron Hemberger, 14 February, 2007 - 6:31pm login or register to post comments

 
Hyalophora columbia gloveri (south Arizona)
If you can manage a series of specimens from each of the various mountain groups in southern Arizona (Santa Ritas, Patagonia, Peloncillo, Atascosa, Huachuca, etc.), you'll see some surprises in variation and some shared tendencies among individuals collected at the same or adjacent localities. I have collected quite a few specimens from Cochise, Santa Cruz, and Pima Counties and am always excited to see a new one. I have found the material from lower elevations near Lake Pena Blanca to be the most interesting,..smaller and paler...and I've only seen 4 from there.

later,
bill
… Bill Reynolds, 8 August, 2008 - 12:50pm login or register to post comments

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