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Citheronia regalis (Regal moth/hickory horned devil)

Synonyms: Citheronia cornuta; Citheronia infernalis; Citheronia regia; Citheronia saengeri

Wikipedia Abstract

The regal moth (Citheronia regalis), also called the royal walnut moth, is a North American moth in the Saturniidae family. The caterpillars are called hickory horned devils. The adult (Imago) has a wingspan of 3.75-6.1 in (9.5-15.5 cm).
View Wikipedia Record: Citheronia regalis

Attributes

Wing Span [1]  4.921 inches (.125 m)

Prey / Diet

Predators

Agkistrodon contortrix (Southern Copperhead)[4]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Eurithia anthophila[3]
Lespesia archippivora[3]
Lespesia frenchii[3]

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Hickory Horned Devil (Larva), Regal Moth or Royal Walnut Moth (Adult), Citheronia regalis (Fabricius) (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Saturniidae: Ceratocampinae), Donald W. Hall, University of Florida, August 1998. Revised September 2014
♦ 2HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 4FOOD HABITS OF THE COPPERHEAD IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE, John S. Garton and Ralph W. Dimmick, Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science Volume 44, Number 4, October, 1969, pp. 113-117
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0