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Saturniidae 890075.1 – 7761   Rothschildia forbesi Benjamin, 1934              Forbes' Silkmoth

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Distribution: Lower Rio Grande valley of Texas. Similar Species: Pinned specimens of related species. (Hint: select View by Region on the related species page.) Synonymy: forbesi Benjamin, 1934 (Rothschildia) REV. STAT.   Type locality: Brownsville, TX. draudti Benjamin, 1934 (Rothschildia) lebeau of authors; (not Guérin-Méneville, 1868) (Attacus) misappl. semiimmacula Gardiner, 1962 (Rothschildia) Taxonomic Notes: Rothschildia forbesi Benjamin, 1934, rev. stat. (St Laurent in Pohl & Nanz (eds.) 2023), was formerly treated as a subspecies of Rothschildia lebeau (Guérin-Méneville, 1868) by Tuskes et al. (1996) following Lemaire (1978).

References

Barcode of Life (BOLD) - Caution: DNA barcode provides evidence of relatedness, not proof of identification, and some BOLD specimens shown may not be sequenced. Benjamin, F.H., 1934. Notes on the genus Rothschildia in the United States . The Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 10(1): 13. Ferguson, D. C., 1972. Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 20.2b: p. 224; pl. 17.4-5, 8. order or free PDF Lemaire, C., 1978. Les Attacidae américains. Attacinae [The American Attacidae. Attacinae]. Lemaire, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France., 1: 1-238. Pohl, G. R. and 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). Species Page at BugGuide.Net 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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