Hemileuca maia

Hemileuca maia

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Bombycoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera Ordo: Lepidoptera Subordo: Glossata Cladus: Coelolepida Cladus: Myoglossata Cladus: Neolepidoptera Infraordo: Heteroneura Cladus: Eulepidoptera Cladus: Ditrysia Cladus: Apoditrysia Cladus: Obtectomera Cladus: Macroheterocera Superfamilia: Bombycoidea

Familia: Saturniidae
Subfamilie: Hemileucinae
Genus: Hemileuca
Species: Hemileuca maia
Subspecies: H. m. maia – H. m. menyanthevora – H. m. orleans – H. m. sandra – H. m. warreni

Name

Hemileuca maia (Drury, (1773))

Type locality: Long Island Avenue, north of Deer Park train station, Edgewood, Suffolk County, New York.

Neotype: MCUF. male ♂. 21.X.2017. legit H. Pavulaan. (neotype designated by Pavulaan, 2020)

Synonymy

• Phalaena Bombyx Maia Drury, (1773) (original combination)

References

Additional references

• Pavulaan, H. 2020. A phenotypic comparison of regional populations of Hemileuca maia (Drury, 1773) with designations of new subspecies (Bombycoidea, Saturniidae, Hemileucinae). The Taxonomic Report 8(5): 1-17. Full article (PDF)Reference page. 
• Pavulaan, H. 2020a. Designation of neotype of Hemileuca maia (Drury, 1773) and refinement of its type locality (Bombycoidea, Saturniidae, Hemileucinae). The Taxonomic Report 8(4): 1-12. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

Vernacular names

English: Coastal Barrens Buckmoth