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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| accessdate=2018-03-12
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{{Cite web| title=Agapema anona Overview
| url=http://eol.org/pages/388671/overview
| website=Encyclopedia of Life
| accessdate=2018-03-12
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{{Cite web| title=Agapema anona Species Information
| url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/374937
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| accessdate=2018-03-12
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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
| url=http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species.php?hodges=7754.1
| accessdate=2018-03-12
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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.
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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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