Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala. See [About maps]
Calleta Silkmoth
Saturnia calleta Westwood, 1853; Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. (1853) 21 : 161, pl. 33, f. 2, TL: Mexico
Platysamia polyommata Tepper, 1882; Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. 5 : 66, pl. 1, f. 3
Eupackardia semicaeca Cockerell, 1914; in Packard, Mem. Natl. Acad. Sci. 12: 236
Eupackardia caeca Draudt, 1929; in Seitz, Gross-Schmett. Erde 6: 720
Eupackardia digueti Bouvier, 1936; Mem. Mus. Hist. nat. (N.S) 3: 279
Eupackardia calleta, Moth Photographers Group [MPG]
Eupackardia calleta, Butterflies and Moths of North America [BAMONA]
Eupackardia calleta, The Moths of Southeastern Arizona [Bruce Walsh]
Eupackardia calleta, Saturniidae of North America [Bill Oehlke]
Samia calleta ; Godman & Salvin, 1886, Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Heterocera 1: 191
Eupackardia calleta ; [NACL, #7763]; [MABL]
Larva on
Leucophyllum frutescens,
Fraxinus [SMNA],
Ligustrum,
Fraxinus greggii,
Forestiera angustifolia V. & S. Passoa, 2000, J. Lep. Soc. 53 (4): 134
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