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Syssphinx is a genus of moths of the family Saturniidae. The genus was erected by Jacob Hübner in 1819.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderLepidoptera
  5. FamilySaturniidae

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
129
Family
Saturniidae
Collections
IIZD-UASLP, OMNH, MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM (MPM), CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, OH (CLEV), FMNH, USNM
Recorded in
Mexico, United States, Brazil, Panamá, Guyana, Equateur, Mexique

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Encyclopedic overview

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Syssphinx is a genus of moths of the family Saturniidae. The genus was erected by Jacob Hübner in 1819.

==Species== Syssphinx albolineata (Grote & Robinson, 1866) (Texas, Mexico) Syssphinx amena (Travassos, 1941) (Ecuador) Syssphinx bicolor (Harris, 1841) (northern and eastern United States, Mexico) Syssphinx bidens (W. Rothschild, 1907) (Ecuador) Syssphinx bisecta (Lintner, 1879) (northern and eastern United States) Syssphinx blanchardi (Ferguson, 1971) (Texas) Syssphinx chocoensis (Lemaire, 1988) Syssphinx colla (Dyar, 1907) (Mexico) Syssphinx colloida (Dyar, 1925) (Mexico) Syssphinx digueti (Bouvier, 1929) (Mexico) Syssphinx erubescens (Boisduval, 1872) Syssphinx gadouae (Lemaire, 1971) Syssphinx gomezi (Lemaire, 1984) (Mexico) Syssphinx heiligbrodti (Harvey, 1877) (Texas, Mexico) Syssphinx hubbardi (Dyar, 1903) (Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California) Syssphinx jasonoides (Lemaire, 1971) Syssphinx malinalcoensis (Lemaire, 1975) (Mexico) Syssphinx mexicana (Boisduval, 1872) (Mexico) Syssphinx modena (Dyar, 1913) (Mexico) Syssphinx molina (Cramer, 1780) (Mexico, Guatemala, Suriname) Syssphinx montana (Packard, 1905) (Arizona, Mexico) Syssphinx ocellata (W. Rothschild, 1907) Syssphinx pescadori (Lemaire, 1988) (Mexico) Syssphinx quadrilineata (Grote & Robinson, 1867) (Mexico to Panama, Venezuela, Guatemala, Ecuador) Syssphinx raspa (Boisduval, 1872) (Arizona, Mexico) Syssphinx smithi (Druce, 1904) Syssphinx thiaucourti (Lemaire, 1975) Syssphinx xanthina (Lemaire, 1984) (Guatemala) Syssphinx yucatana (Druce, 1904) (Mexico)

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