Hemileuca maia

Hemileuca maia maia
(Drury, 1773) Phalaena Bombyx Maia

Hemileuca maia female, Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas,
December, 2007, courtesy/copyright Charles Bordelon and Ed Knudson.

Charles writes, "My wife caught the H. maia female in Beaumont, Jefferson Co. TX on 10-XII-07. It is more like females of Florida H. maia, but this bug was quite fresh, and has a more whitish overscale (aside from the median band) appearance than typical maia maia."

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