Agapema anona

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| genus = Agapema

| species = anona

| authority = (Ottolengui, 1903)

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Agapema anona, commonly known as the greasewood silkmoth or Mexican agapema, is a species of giant silkmoth in the family Saturniidae.

{{Cite web| title=Agapema anona Report

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{{Cite web| title=Agapema anona Overview

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{{Cite web| title=Agapema anona Species Information

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The MONA or Hodges number for Agapema anona is 7754.1.

{{Cite web| title=North American Moth Photographers Group, Agapema anona

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Habitat

Agapema anona inhabits southern Arizona, Texas, and New Mexico, spreading into northern Mexico. Habitat has been described as being plains, plateaus, desert foothills, arroyos, and alluvial fans.{{Cite web |title=Mexican agapema Agapema anona {{!}} Butterflies and Moths of North America |url=https://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species/Agapema-anona |access-date=2022-04-24 |website=www.butterfliesandmoths.org}}

Host plants

The larvae of Agapema anona feed on plants in the Condalia genus, mainly the knife-leaf condalia, green snakewood, and javelina bush. The adults, as with all Saturniidae species, do not feed.

Subspecies

Three subspecies belong to the species Agapema anona:

  • Agapema anona anona (Ottolengui, 1903) 7754.1
  • Agapema anona dyari (Cockerell, 1914) 7754.2
  • Agapema anona platensis (Peigler & Kendall, 1993) 7754.3

References

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Further reading

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  • {{Cite book

| last1 = Beadle | first1 = David

| last2 = Leckie | first2 = Seabrooke

| date = 2012

| title = Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America

| publisher = Virginia Museum of Natural History

| isbn = 978-0547238487

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  • {{Cite book

| last1 = Covell | first1 = Charles V. Jr.

| date = 2005

| title = A Field Guide to Moths of Eastern North America

| series = Special Publication Number 12

| publisher = Virginia Museum of Natural History

| isbn = 1-884549-21-7

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  • {{Cite book

| last1 = Grote

| first1 = Aug.R.

| last2 = Robinson

| first2 = C.T.

| date = 1868

| title = List of the Lepidoptera of North America

| url = https://archive.org/details/cihm_04389

| publisher = American Entomological Society

| isbn = 9780665043895

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  • {{Cite journal

| last1 = Heppner

| first1 = J.B.

| date = 2003

| title = Lepidoptera of Florida. Part 1. Introduction and catalog

| url = http://freshfromflorida.s3.amazonaws.com/arthropods-of-florida-vol-17.pdf

| journal = Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Areas

| publisher = Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services

| volume = 17

| issn = 0066-8036

| access-date = 2018-03-12

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180423112356/http://freshfromflorida.s3.amazonaws.com/arthropods-of-florida-vol-17.pdf

| archive-date = 2018-04-23

| url-status = dead

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  • {{Cite book

| editor-last1 = Hodges | editor-first1 = Ronald W.

| date = 1983

| title = Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico: Including Greenland

| publisher = E.W. Classey and The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation

| isbn = 9780860960164

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  • {{Cite journal

| last1 = Kitching | first1 = I.

| last2 = Rougerie | first2 = R.

| last3 = Zwick | first3 = A.

| last4 = Hamilton | first4 = C.

| last5 = St Laurent | first5 = R.

| last6 = Naumann | first6 = S.

| last7 = Ballesteros Mejia | first7 = L.

| last8 = Kawahara | first8 = A.

| display-authors = 4

| date = 2018

| title = A global checklist of the Bombycoidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera)

| journal = Biodiversity Data Journal

| volume = 6

| issue = 6

| doi = 10.3897/BDJ.6.e22236

| pmc = 5904559 | pmid=29674935 | page=e22236

| doi-access = free

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  • {{Cite report

| last1 = Pohl | first1 = Greg

| last2 = Patterson | first2 = Bob

| last3 = Pelham | first3 = Jonathan

| date = 2016

| title = Annotated taxonomic checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico

| doi = 10.13140/RG.2.1.2186.3287

| doi-access = free

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  • {{Cite book

| last1 = Powell | first1 = Jerry A.

| last2 = Opler | first2 = Paul A.

| date = 2009

| title = Moths of Western North America

| publisher = University of California Press

| isbn = 9780520251977

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  • {{Cite book

| last1 = Tuskes

| first1 = Paul M.

| last2 = Tuttle

| first2 = James P.

| last3 = Collins

| first3 = Michael M.

| date = 1996

| title = The wild silk moths of North America: a natural history of the Saturniidae of the United States and Canada

| publisher = Cornell University Press

| isbn = 0-8014-3130-1

| url-access = registration

| url = https://archive.org/details/wildsilkmothsofn00tusk

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