Automeris cecrops

Automeris cecrops
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Saturniidae
Genus:	Automeris
Species:	A. cecrops
Binomial name
Automeris cecrops (Boisduval, 1875)

Automeris cecrops, the cecrops eyed silkmoth, is a species of insect in the family Saturniidae. It is found in Central America and North America. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

The MONA or Hodges number for Automeris cecrops is 7748. ^[4]

Subspecies

These three subspecies belong to the species Automeris cecrops:

• Automeris cecrops cecrops(Boisduval, 1875)
• Automeris cecrops pamina(Neumoegen, 1882)
• Automeris cecrops peigleriLemaire, 1981

References

1. "Automeris cecrops Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
2. "Automeris cecrops". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
3. "Automeris cecrops species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
4. "North American Moth Photographers Group, Automeris cecrops" . Retrieved 2019-09-23.

Further reading

• Tuskes, Paul M.; Tuttle, James P.; Collins, Michael M. (1996). The wild silk moths of North America: a natural history of the Saturniidae of the United States and Canada . Cornell University Press. ISBN   978-0-8014-3130-2.
• Kitching, I.; Rougerie, R.; Zwick, A.; Hamilton, C.; et al. (2018). "A global checklist of the Bombycoidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera)". Biodiversity Data Journal (6) e22236. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.6.e22236 . PMC   5904559 . PMID   29674935.
• Pohl, Greg; Patterson, Bob; Pelham, Jonathan (2016). Annotated taxonomic checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico (Report). doi: 10.13140/RG.2.1.2186.3287 .