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Automeris io (Io moth)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Automeris io (Io moth) is a colorful North American moth in the family Saturniidae. It ranges from the southeast corner of Manitoba and in the southern extremes of Ontario, Quebec, and New Brunswick in Canada, and in the US it is found from Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, east of those states and down to the southern end of Florida.
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Infraspecies

Automeris io io
Automeris io neomexicana (New Mexico Io Moth)
Automeris io potosiana

Attributes

Wing Span [1]  2.559 inches (.065 m)

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Carlsbad Caverns National Park II 15448 New Mexico, United States

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Agkistrodon contortrix (Southern Copperhead)[4]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Chetogena claripennis[3]
Compsilura concinnata (Tachina fly)[3]
Lespesia frenchii[3]

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Io Moth Automeris io (Fabricius) (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Saturniidae), Donald W. Hall, University of Florida, December 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
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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