Calosaturnia walterorum

Calosaturnia walterorum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Saturniidae
Tribe:	Saturniini
Genus:	Calosaturnia
Species:	C. walterorum
Binomial name
Calosaturnia walterorum (Hogue & Johnson, 1958)
Synonyms
Saturnia walterorumHogue & Johnson, 1938 [Replacement name] Calosaturnia meridionalisJohnson, 1940 Saturnia meridionalis (Johnson, 1940) [Preoccupied]

Calosaturniaa walterorum, or Walter's saturnia moth, is a species of silkmoth in the family Saturniidae. ^{[1] [2]} It is found in the United States, California and ranges into Mexico. ^[3]

The MONA or Hodges number for Saturnia walterorum is 7752. ^[4]

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. "Calosaturnia walterorum species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2025-11-10.
4. "North American Moth Photographers Group, Calosaturnia walterorum" . Retrieved 2025-11-10.

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 .

External links

• Media related to Calosaturnia walterorum at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Calosaturnia walterorum at Wikispecies