Hemileuca sandra
| Hemileuca sandra | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Saturniidae |
| Genus: | Hemileuca |
| Species: | H. sandra |
| Binomial name | |
| Hemileuca sandra Pavulaan, 2020 | |
Hemileuca sandra, the eastern buckmoth, is a species in the family Saturniidae.
Description
[edit]As with other allies (e.g. Hemileuca maia etc), the female tends to be larger than the male, where the males can be distinguished by their similar black abdomens instead having a red tip. As for others, in both sexes the upperside of all wings are creamy white with black edges, each wing has "eyes" or black dots.
Taxonomy
[edit]These eastern buckmoths were originally described as a subspecies Hemileuca maia sandra Pavulaan, 2020.[1] This followed from findings by Pavulaan, 2020(b)[2] to indicate some important distinction between various former populations of Hemileuca maia (Drury, 1773) under a broader former concept of the eastern buckmoth which is still adopted in several initiatives, e.g. NatureServe.[3] The historical concepts were redefined to claim the core populations linked to the original taxon name (i.e. nominotypical populations tied to the earliest historical concept) should be restricted to populations around New York, in the Long Island Pine Barrens.[1] Those were redefined as Hemileuca maia maia (Drury, 1773), broadly as those from Coastal barrens (Cape Cod-Long Island), while other former populations from diverse localities were instead assigned to different subspecies.[1][2] However, several of those proposed subspecies have been since been relisted elsewhere as a valid species, after comments in Pohl & Nanz, 2023[4][5]
Distribution
[edit]They are found in many Eastern regions of the USA, such as West Virginia and North Carolina, with the reference specimen from New Jersey.
Life cycle
[edit]Similar to other species in the genus.
Larval foods
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 3 Harry Pavulaan (2020). "A phenotypic comparison of regional populations of Hemileuca maia (Drury, 1773) with designations of new subspecies (Bombycoidea, Saturniidae, Hemileucinae)" (PDF). The Taxonomic Report of The International Lepidoptera Survey. 8 (5): 1–17. ISSN 2643-4776. Wikidata Q106365608. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 April 2021.
- 1 2 Harry Pavulaan (2020). "Designation of neotype of Hemileuca maia (Drury, 1773) and refinement of its type locality (Bombycoidea, Saturniidae, Hemileucinae)" (PDF). The Taxonomic Report of The International Lepidoptera Survey. 8 (4): 1–12. ISSN 2643-4776. Wikidata Q106365605. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 April 2021.
- ↑ "NatureServe Explorer , Hemileuca maia - Eastern Buckmoth". North American Moth Photographers group. Retrieved 2026-08-12.
- ↑ Pohl, G.R. & Nanz, S.R. (eds.) 2023. Annotated Taxonomic Checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico. Wedge Entomological Research Foundation, Bakersfield, California. xiv + 580 pp.
- ↑ "North American Moth Photographers Group, Hemileuca sandra - Eastern Buckmoth". North American Moth Photographers group. Retrieved 2026-08-12.
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