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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) » Saturniini » Agapema » Greasewood Silkmoth - Hodges#7754.1 (Agapema anona)

Species Agapema anona - Greasewood Silkmoth - Hodges#7754.1

Classification · Hodges Number · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Range · Food · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Agapema anona platensis - Agapema anona - male

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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 Saturniinae (Silkmoths)

Tribe Saturniini

Genus Agapema

Species anona (Greasewood Silkmoth - Hodges#7754.1)

Hodges Number

7754.1

Other Common Names

Mexican Agapema Moth

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Agapema anona (Ottolengui, 1903)

Saturnia (Agapema) anona Ottolengui, 1903

Phylogentetic sequence # 225800

Range

southern Arizona, common in some suburbs of Tucson, AZ (Peigler et al., 1993); MPG records show New Mexico and Texas.

Food

Peigler, et al., (1993) listed Condalia sp. (1)

Print References

Tuskes, P.M., J.P. Tuttle, M.M. Collins, 1996. The Wild Silk Moths of North America: A Natural History of the Saturniidae of the United States and Canada. p.169. (2)

Ottolengui, 1903. Entomological News, 14: 311

Peigler, R.S., R.O. Kendall, 1993. A review of the genus Agapema (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae). Proceedings of the Denver Museum of Natural History, 3(3): p. 5; figs. 19-20. (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (3)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)

Big Bend - Texas Nature - pupae photos

Works Cited

1.	A review of the genus Agapema (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae) Roy O. Kendall, Richard S. Peigler. 1993. Proceedings of the Denver Museum of Natural History, 3(3): 1-22.

2.	The Wild Silk Moths of North America: A Natural History of the Saturniidae of the United States and Canada Paul M. Tuskes, James P. Tuttle, Michael M. Collins. 1996. Cornell University Press.

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Bill Reynolds on 5 March, 2010 - 3:46pm
Additional contributions by Bob Patterson, Maury Heiman, Randy Hardy
Last updated 11 October, 2013 - 9:00pm

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