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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Silkworm, Sphinx, and Royal Moths (Bombycoidea) » Giant Silkworm and Royal Moths (Saturniidae) » Silkmoths (Saturniinae) » Attacini » Hyalophora » Columbia Silkmoth - Hodges#7768 (Hyalophora columbia) » Glover's Silkmoth - Hodges#7769 (Hyalophora columbia gloveri)
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Hyalophora gloveri (Sonoran group) - Hyalophora columbia - male
Copyright © 2010 Bill Reynolds

Hyalophora gloveri (Sonoran group) - Hyalophora columbia - Male
"Bear Canyon" (nr. Lake Pena Blanca) , Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
August 4, 2000
Collected at lights
04 August 2000, ~4:30 am
~5,000 ft. a.s.l.
Coll. Bill Reynolds & I. Nadbourne

This guy is really "beat up", however, since "Hyalophora gloveri" does not appear to be very common in the immediate Lake Pena Blanca area, I thought it worthy of inclusion, especially since gloveri specimens from here seem a bit smaller and redder.

It has been my experience that s. Arizona "Hyalophora gloveri" populations are more common at higher elevations, usually above 5,000-6,000 ft. a.s.l.

Examples from Lake Pena Blanca


Additional examples from the Sonoran region of se. AZ

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Contributed by Bill Reynolds on 3 February, 2010 - 5:45pm
Last updated 16 February, 2010 - 1:18pm

Lake Pena Blanca "gloveri"
Having collected across southern Arizona for several years, I have noticed that "gloveri" specimens from the Lake Pena Blanca area tend to be slightly smaller and characterized by more of a "washed out red" than those collected from higher elevations and different localities across the "Sonoran" region.
… Bill Reynolds, 9 February, 2010 - 11:45am login or register to post comments

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