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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 » "Natural Hybrids & Blend Zones" (Hyalophora "Natural Hybrids & Blend Zones")
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Hyalophora (Boise Idaho Complex) - Hyalophora - male
Copyright © 2010 Bill Reynolds

Hyalophora (Boise Idaho Complex) - Hyalophora - Male
Boise County, Idaho, USA
June 8, 1991
Boise Co.
coll. M. Collins

The "Boise Idaho Group" is a "taxonomically enigmatic" population of "hybrid origin" (euryalus x gloveri/columbia).
For more details, please refer to the following:
The Wild Silk Moths of North America: A Natural History of the Saturniidae of the United States and Canada
By Paul M. Tuskes, James P. Tuttle, Michael M. Collins

Like H. "kasloensis", members of the "Boise Group" are of interspecific hybrid origin (columbia/gloveri x euryalus), reproductively stable and occupy a distinct and somewhat isolated part of the over all "Hyalophora range". Although similar to "kasloensis" in appearance, these moths are distinct.

Representative specimens of this "taxon"
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Contributed by Bill Reynolds on 17 November, 2010 - 1:46pm
Last updated 30 May, 2011 - 12:44pm

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