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NOTES UPON THE NORTH AMERICAN SATURNINA, WITH LIST OF THE SPECIES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

A. Radcliffe Grote
Affiliation:
Hildesheim, Germany.

Extract

Of the three families of Saturnina found in North America, only the Saturnidæ occurs in the European fauna. Conversely no analogue of the European Aglia tau* has been found in America. In a very interesting paper, Ann. Mag. N. Hist., Vol. XI., 1893, Dr. Packard says of this species: “Aglia appears to be a Ceratocampid in its earlier larval stages, the caterpillar in its final stage, however, and the moth being closely related to the Saturnians”. This being so, it is clear that Aglia cannot be classed as a subfamily of Cithernidœ, from which the habit and struture of the moth and the mde of pupation seem to exclude it.

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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1895

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* This moth is very common in beech woods in this neighbourhood, Hildesheim, and almost everywhere in Central Europe. I should not wonder if it were in time imported by dealers, and then reported as indigenous to America, as I believe has been done with Xyloicus pinastri.