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Hemileuca tricolor, the tricolor buckmoth, is a moth in the silkworm family Saturniidae. It is native mainly to the Sonoran Desert of the southwestern United States, including southern Arizona, southwestern New Mexico, and Mexico.[1][2]
This species is sexually dimorphic, and the males are smaller and lighter in color than the females. Wingspan is between 2+1⁄8 and 3+1⁄8 inches (5.2 - 7.8 cm). The forewing is gray with a marginal, median, and postmedian white band, and a central yellow or orange eyespot. The hindwing in males is white and in females white to dull brown. The abdomen is red to reddish brown.
Larval host plants include littleleaf palo verde (Cercidium microphyllum), mesquite (Prosopis juliflora), and catclaw mesquite (Acacia greggii). Adults do not feed.[3]
Eggs are deposited on host plant and hatch in July, after which the caterpillars feed until pupating. They then overwinter as pupae and emerge in January. There is one flight per year, from January through April.
Hemileuca tricolor, the tricolor buckmoth, is a moth in the silkworm family Saturniidae. It is native mainly to the Sonoran Desert of the southwestern United States, including southern Arizona, southwestern New Mexico, and Mexico.
Hemileuca tricolor is een vlinder uit de onderfamilie Hemileucinae van de familie nachtpauwogen (Saturniidae).
De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is, als Euleucophaeus tricolor, voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd door Alpheus Spring Packard in 1872.[1]
Hemileuca tricolor is een vlinder uit de onderfamilie Hemileucinae van de familie nachtpauwogen (Saturniidae).
De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is, als Euleucophaeus tricolor, voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd door Alpheus Spring Packard in 1872.
