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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Flannel, Slug Caterpillar, Leaf Skeletonizer Moths and kin (Zygaenoidea) » Flannel Moths (Megalopygidae) » Megalopyge » Southern Flannel Moth - Hodges#4647 (Megalopyge opercularis) » Megalopyge bissesa (Megalopyge opercularis bissesa)
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megalopyge - Megalopyge opercularis
Copyright © 2013 john and jane balaban

megalopyge - Megalopyge opercularis
Santa Rita Range Station, Pima County, Arizona, USA
July 27, 2013
The next morning we went back up to the station and looked around to see what had spent the night! gathering_2013
Maury, a couple more images of Megalopyge. Don't know what's useful for wing color or pattern.

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Contributed by john and jane balaban on 12 August, 2013 - 8:45pm
Last updated 14 April, 2020 - 3:26pm

MPG seems to state that these are a subspecies
Did we decide not to make the subspecies page? If we are, John VanDyk can simply move the old bissesa species page and change it to a subspecies page under opercularis. Please do not delete the old page.
… john and jane balaban, 20 January, 2020 - 7:42pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Megalopyge bissesa.
… Aaron Hunt, 20 January, 2020 - 5:24pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Moths.
… margarethe brummermann, 28 October, 2013 - 1:14am login or register to post comments

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