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Hyalophora
Sign in to saveHyalophora is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae. The genus was erected by James Duncan and John O. Westwood in 1841.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderLepidoptera
- FamilySaturniidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 524
- With media
- 180
- Family
- Saturniidae
- Collections
- MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM (MPM), YPM, UMNH, UCD, CSU
- Recorded in
- United States, Canada
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Hyalophora is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae. The genus was erected by James Duncan and John O. Westwood in 1841.
==Species== Hyalophora cecropia (Linnaeus, 1758) – cecropia moth Hyalophora columbia (S.I. Smith, 1865) – Columbia silkmoth or larch silkmoth Hyalophora euryalus (Boisduval, 1855) – ceanothus silkmoth Hyalophora gloveri Strecker, 1872 – Glover's silkmoth Hyalophora leonis (Naumann, Nassig & Nogueira, 2014) Hyalophora mexicana (Nässig, Nogueira G. & Naumann, 2014)
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