Anisota peigleri
Anisota peigleri
Riotte, 1975
Anisota peigleri fifth instar, Rock Hill, York County, South Carolina,
August 14, 2009, courtesy of Lonnie Huffman.
Anisota peigleri fifth instar, Rock Hill, York County, South Carolina,
August 14, 2009, courtesy of Lonnie Huffman.
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| TAXONOMY:
Superfamily: Bombycoidea, Latreille, 1802
Family Saturniidae Boisduval, [1837] 1834
Subfamily: Ceratocampinae, Harris 1841
Genus: Anisota, Hübner, 1820 ("1816")
Species: peigleri, Riotte, 1975 |
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Anisota peigleri courtesy of University of Florida.
Anisota senatoria (possibly A. peigleri based on elongated scoli), courtesy of Wasil,
Forsyth County, NC
in the vicinity of Winston-Salem, August 23, 2003.
It is difficult to distinguish A. senatoria and A. peigleri larvae from photographs. Tuskes, Tuttle and Collins in
their execellent book, The Wild Silkmoths of North America, indicate mature A. peigleri larvae have "a pronounced row of dorsolateral scoli
(lacking in senatoria and finlaysoni) and a general elongation of the dorsal and sublateral scoli." They also state
"peigleri may not represnt a fully divergent species (from senatoria) but is rather the southern terminus of a cline."
Anisota peigleri fifth instar, Rock Hill, York County, South Carolina,
August 14, 2009, courtesy of Lonnie Huffman.
Both the Forsyth County, North Carolina, and the York County, South Carolina, images above seem to have the elongated scoli characteristic of
A. peigleri, and the York County image also has the orange sublateral line most pronounced, supposedly a character of A. peigleri. However,
the Forsyth County images shows the orange sublateral line much reduced. Perhaps DNA analysis will sort out if the two classifications have sufficient differences
to stand on their own as distinct species.
Both locales are near the eastern most "limits" for A. peigleri in their respective states, and well within the stated ranges for A. senatoria.
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