Moth Photographers Group – Hemileuca grotei

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Saturniidae

890046 – 7733 Hemileuca grotei Grote & Robinson, 1868

Grote's Buck Moth

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Synonymy:	grotei Grote & Robinson, 1868 (Hemileuca) - MONA 1983: 7733 ssp. a. grotei Grote & Robinson, 1868 (Hemileuca) ssp. b. diana Packard, 1874 (Hemileuca) - MONA 1983: [7734] Note: This subspecies continues to be treated as full species by some authors.
Taxonomic Notes:	Hemileuca grotei Grote & Robinson, 1868 includes as a subspecies Hemileuca diana in St Laurent (in Pohl & Nanz (eds.) 2023) following Tuskes et al. (1996).

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) - Caution: Identifications often erroneous; DNA barcode provides evidence of relatedness, not proof of identification; many specimens not sequenced.
Ferguson, D. C., 1971. Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 20.2a: p. 123; pl. 8.3, 11.7. order or free PDF
Ferguson, D. C., 1971. Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 20.2a: p. 124; pl. 8.4-5. order or free PDF
Lemaire, C., 2002. Hemileucinae. The Saturniidae of America (3 volume set), 4: 1,388 pages.
Pohl, G.R. & S.R. Nanz (eds.), 2023. Annotated Taxonomic Checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico. Wedge Entomological Research Foundation, Bakersfield, California, xiv + 580 pp. (order). (PDF (no fee) or order book)
Species Page at BugGuide.Net
Species Page at iNaturalist
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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