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Species Hemileuca burnsi - Hodges#7737

caterpillar from southern CA desert - Hemileuca burnsi

Black caterpillar w/ white spots, shorter yellow-green bristles and longer black and white branched bristles - Hemileuca burnsi

Hemileuca burnsi near Las Vegas - Hemileuca burnsi

Sagebrush Checkerspot - Hemileuca burnsi

Burns' buckmoth, Hemileuca burnsi - Hemileuca burnsi

Hemileuca burnsi ♀ - Hemileuca burnsi - female

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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 burnsi (Hemileuca burnsi - Hodges#7737)

Hodges Number

7737

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Hemileuca burnsi J.H. Watson, 1910

* phylogenetic sequence #225150

Food

Larval host plant: Psorothamnus

Print References

Comstock, J. A. & C. M. Dammers 1937. Notes on the early stages of three California moths. Bull. Southern California Acad. Sci. 36(2): 68, pl.29-32

Ferguson, D. C. 1971. Moths of America North of Mexico. Fascicle 20.2a: p.130, pl.7.11-12

Powell, J. A. & P. A. Opler 2009. Moths of Western North America. pl.37.1m, p.239 (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - species page

Works Cited

1.	Moths of Western North America Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.

Contributed by Joyce Gross on 12 January, 2009 - 3:11pm
Additional contributions by Chuck Entz, David Ferguson, Randy Hardy
Last updated 21 January, 2018 - 4:58pm

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