Nebraska Counties

This distribution chart is a compilation of information from Paul Opler's Moths of North America Website, the Lepidopterists' Society Season Summary, Lemaire's Hemileucinae 2003 and personal communication with many residents of Nebraska. See comments below the map.

Actual ranges may, in many cases, be more expansive than noted, but Nebraska is well known as a transition state where many of the silkmoths common to the eastern United States encounter the western-most limits of their respective ranges.

Rubicunda, imperialis, regalis, bicolor and luna are found only in the east; columbia gloveri and pandora are found only in the northwest; cecropia, io and polyphemus are probably widespread and fairly common.

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Western Nebraska

O Dryocampa rubicunda O Eacles imperialis O Citheronia regalis O Sphingicampa bicolor # Automeris io # Coloradia pandora # Hemileuca nevadensis X Hyalophora cecropia X Hyalophora columbia gloveri + Actias luna + Antheraea polyphemus O Dryocampa rubicunda O Eacles imperialis O Citheronia regalis O Sphingicampa bicolor

Eastern Nebraska

O Dryocampa rubicunda O Eacles imperialis O Citheronia regalis O Sphingicampa bicolor # Automeris io # Coloradia pandora # Hemileuca nevadensis X Hyalophora cecropia X Hyalophora columbia gloveri + Actias luna + Antheraea polyphemus O Dryocampa rubicunda O Eacles imperialis O Citheronia regalis O Sphingicampa bicolor

Barb Rifer reports (confirms with image) an adult Hyalophora cecropia from Wayne in Wayne County, June 20, 2003.

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