''Hemileuca slosseri'', the nit-grass moth or Slosser's buckmoth, is a species of
moth
Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...
in the family
Saturniidae
Saturniidae, commonly known as saturniids, is a family of Lepidoptera with an estimated 2,300 described species. The family contains some of the largest species of moths in the world. Notable members include the emperor moths, royal moths, and gi ...
.
It was described by Richard S. Peigler and Stephen E. Stone in 1989 and is found in North America.
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The MONA or Hodges number for ''Hemileuca slosseri'' is 7744.4.][Pohl, G.R., Patterson, B., & Pelham, J.P. (2016). ]
Taxonomic Checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico
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References
* Tuskes, Paul M., James P. Tuttle, and Michael M. Collins (1996). ''The Wild Silk Moths of North America: A Natural History of the Saturniidae of the United States and Canada'', ix + 250.
Further reading
* Arnett, Ross H. (2000). ''American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico''. CRC Press.
External links
Butterflies and Moths of North America
NCBI Taxonomy Browser, ''Hemileuca slosseri''
Hemileucinae
Moths described in 1989
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