Calosaturnia mendocino

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Calosaturnia mendocino
Mendocino Silk Moth (Calosaturnia mendocino).jpg
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Saturniidae
Tribe: Saturniini
Genus: Calosaturnia
Species:
C. mendocino
Binomial name
Calosaturnia mendocino
(Behrens, 1876)
Synonyms

Saturnia mendocinoBehrens, 1876

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Calosaturnia mendocino, the Mendocino saturnia moth, is a species of silkmoth in the family Saturniidae. [1] [2] It was first described as Saturnia mendocino by Behrens in 1876. [3] [4] It is endemic to the United States, California [5]

The MONA or Hodges number for Calosaturnia mendocino (=Saturnia mendocino) is 7751. [6]

References

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ Daniel Rubinoff; Camiel Doorenweerd (16 March 2020). "Systematics and Biogeography Reciprocally Illuminate Taxonomic Revisions in the Silkmoth Genus Saturnia (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae)". Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society. 74 (1): 1–6. doi:10.18473/LEPI.74I1.A1. ISSN   0024-0966. Wikidata   Q110445241.
  3. ↑ Behrens, James (1876). "Description of a new saturian". The Canadian Entomologist. 8 (8): 149. doi:10.4039/Ent8149-8.
  4. ↑ Lotts, Kelly & Naberhaus, Thomas (2017). "Mendocino saturnia moth Saturnia mendocino Behrens, 1876". Butterflies and Moths of North America. Retrieved November 15, 2018.
  5. ↑ "Calosaturnia mendocino Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2025-11-10.
  6. ↑ "North American Moth Photographers Group, Calosaturnia mendocino" . Retrieved 2025-11-10.

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