Mothing in SE Arizona

[Bruce Walsh]

Last night's mothing at Pena Blanca Canyon, Santa Cruz Co, AZ
With Bill M. and Harold B (your hosts for the Lep Soc mothing trip)
 
Sphingidae (Hawkmoths)  --- species numbers and diversity down, but still
early in the season
 
5  Carolina sphinx  -- Manduca sexta
3  Rustic sphinx  -- Manduca rustica
2 Muscosa sphinx (Manduca muscosa )
1 Great ash sphinx (Sphinx chersis )
1  Doll's sphinx (Sphinx dollii )
4 Small-eyed sphinx (Paonias myops)
1 Falcon sphinx (Xylophanes falco)
20 White-lined sphinx (Hyles lineata)
 
Saturniidae (Silkmoths)
 
!!!!!  4 Cincta silkmoth (Rothschildia cincta)
10 Oculea silkmoth (Antheraea oculea)
1 Iris eyed silkmoth (Automeris iris)
100 +  Cecrops eyed silkmoth (Automeris cecrops panima)
30  Western Imperial (Eacles oslari)
20  Splendid royal moth (Citheronia splendens)
50  Hubbard's small silkmoth (Sphingicampa hubbardi)
10 Montata small silkmoth (Sphingicampa montana)
 
Apatelodidae (Apatelodid Moths)
20 Apatelodes pudefacta
 
Lasiocampidae (Tent caterpillars and their (larger) relatives)
10 Dicogaster coronada
10 Tolype glenwoodii
 
Other notables:
 
8 Lirimiris truncata ( Notodontidae )
20 Gerrodes minatea (Noctuidae: Agaristinae)
30 Neumoegenia poetica (Noctuidae: Stiriinae)
 
All species figured on SE Arizona moth webpage
 
http://nitro.biosci.arizona.edu/zeeb/butterflies/mothlist.html
 
Cheers
 
Bruce Walsh
University of Arizona