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Welcome to Genus Hemileuca!

Hemileuca - Liber Deserti

Your current chain: State of matter Life > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Hexapoda > Class Insecta > Subclass Pterygota > Order Lepidoptera > Superfamily Bombycoidea > Family Saturniidae > Subfamily Hemileucinae > Tribe Hemileucini > Genus Hemileuca

(From Wikipedia) Hemileuca is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae first described by Francis Walker in 1855.

FACT: In saturniid species with multiple broods, adults from different seasons of development may look totally different!

Currently discovered: 1/36 Species

Species

  1. Hemileuca maia - Buck Moth