Minnesota Counties

This distribution chart is a compilation of information from Paul Opler's Moths of North America Website, the Lepidopterists' Society Season Summary and personal communication with many residents of Minnesota. See comments below the map.

Actual ranges may, in many cases, be much more expansive than noted. I suspect cecropia, io, luna and polyphemus fly throughout the state.

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O Anisota senatoria O Anisota stigma O Anisota virginiensis O Dryocampa rubicunda O Eacles imperialis # Automeris io # Hemileuca nevadensis (complex 2) X Callosamia promethea X Hyalophora cecropia X Hyalophora columbia + Actias luna + Antheraea polyphemus O Anisota senatoria O Anisota stigma O Anisota virginiensis O Dryocampa rubicunda O Eacles imperialis # Automeris io # Hemileuca nevadensis (complex 2) X Callosamia promethea X Hyalophora cecropia X Hyalophora columbia + Actias luna + Antheraea polyphemus O Anisota senatoria O Anisota stigma O Anisota virginiensis O Dryocampa rubicunda O Eacles imperialis # Automeris io # Hemileuca nevadensis (complex 2) X Callosamia promethea X Hyalophora cecropia X Hyalophora columbia + Actias luna + Antheraea polyphemus

Don Ehlen writes, "I can confirm polyphemus for Sherburne County, Big Elk Lake, 2 June 1991."

Mary Torgusen, Mankato (Blue Earth County), confirms Antheraea polyphemus with larva find August 13, 2003. The larva cocooned evening of 13th.

O Anisota senatoria O Anisota stigma O Anisota virginiensis O Dryocampa rubicunda O Eacles imperialis # Automeris io # Hemileuca nevadensis (complex 2) X Callosamia promethea X Hyalophora cecropia X Hyalophora columbia + Actias luna + Antheraea polyphemus O Anisota senatoria O Anisota stigma O Anisota virginiensis O Dryocampa rubicunda O Eacles imperialis # Automeris io # Hemileuca nevadensis (complex 2) X Callosamia promethea X Hyalophora cecropia X Hyalophora columbia + Actias luna + Antheraea polyphemus

Duane McDowell writes, "Wild C. promethea males came in to calling females on 6/15/03 and 6/16/03 in Roseville (St. Paul) MN (Ramsey County), less than 5 miles from downtown St. Paul and 6 from downtown Minneapolis."

John Haarstad reports Actias luna, Anisota stigma, Anisota virginiensis, Antheraea polyphemus, Automeris io, Hyalophora cecropia and Hemileuca maia from Cedar Creek on the borders of Isanti and Anoka Counties.

I suspect the Hemileuca species is of the nevadensis complex.

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