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Saturniidae 890054 – 7741   Hemileuca hera (Harris, 1841)              Hera Buckmoth

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Similar Species: Pinned specimens of related species. (Hint: select View by Region on the related species page.) Synonymy: hera (Harris, 1841) (Saturnia) - MONA 1983: 7741  chrysocarena (Harris, 1869) (Hera)  gunderi (Hill, 1924) (Pseudohazis); TL: Modoc Co., CA. Note: Described as an "abberation".  pica Walker, 1855 (Hemileuca) ssp. b. marcata (Neumoegen, 1891) (Pseudohazis) Taxonomic Notes: Hemileuca hera (Harris, 1841) includes as a subspecies 7742 Hemileuca magnifica in Pohl et al. (2016) following Tuskes et al. (1996). Both H. h. magnifica and H. h. marcata continue to be treated as full species by some authors.

References (Caution: DNA barcoding at BOLD provides evidence of relatedness, not proof of identification; some BOLD specimens shown may not be sequenced.)

Barcode of Life (BOLD) Ferguson, D. C., 1971. Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 20.2a: p. 134; pl. 9.4-12. order or free PDF Hill, C.A., 1924. Pacific Coast Lepidoptera. No. 1 (Noctuidae). Some apparently new species of moths of the family Noctuidae and one Saturnid aberration from the southwestern United States. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, 23(6): 184; pl. 3, fig. 7. Lemaire, C., 2002. Hemileucinae. The Saturniidae of America (3 volume set), 4: 1,388 pages. Powell, J. A. & P. A. Opler, 2009. Moths of Western North America, Pl. 36.6m; p. 240. Book Review and ordering Species Page at BugGuide.Net Species Page at E. H. Strickland Museum Species Page at Pacific Northwest Moths Species Page at iNaturalist Species page at Moths of North Dakota. 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. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY & London, UK, available in Books to Borrow at Internet Archive.

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