NORTH BRAZIL: PARA

Syssphinx molina female, Tucurui, Para, Brazil,
March 9, 2016, Wriel Martins, identification by Bill Oehlke

Many thanks go to all the individuals who have contributed images and/or information and have helped with identifications and corrections to flesh out the active links listed below.

Wriel martins also sends these image of an egg-laden female S. molina.

Syssphinx molina female, Tucurui, Para, Brazil,
March 9, 2016, Wriel Martins, identification by Bill Oehlke

Syssphinx molina female, Tucurui, Para, Brazil,
March 9, 2016, Wriel Martins, identification by Bill Oehlke

These provisional checklists of the different Saturniidae subfamilies/tribes have been largely created by going through the information provided in the four great Saturniidae works by the late Dr. Claude Lemaire of France: Attacidae (1978), Arsenurinae (1980), Ceratocampinae (1988) and Hemileucinae (2002). Dr. Lemaire's confirmations for Amapa are indicated with an asterisk (*).

I have made many of my own interpolations from those works, particularly if a species was described from surrounding Brazilian states or other nearby countries with a similar biome (Tropical Rain Forest; Amazonica). Those interpolations are followed by "?" to indicate I have no confirmed reports, but I anticipate the species has a range including the state of Para.

The Brazilian states in the North Region have not been sampled for Saturniidae nearly as well as those states in the South, Southeast, and Center-West Regions. I suspect there are many omissions in these listings, and there would also be many omissions in the Northeast Region which is also poorly sampled as of this writing, February 10, 2016.

Many new species have been described since the publications of Dr. Lemaire works and much effort has been made and continues to be made with revisions to the lists. Those species recently described in the Entomo-Satsphingia Journals: 2008-2015, by Brechlin & Meister have an (e) following their names.

Para consists of low elevation tropical rainforest and would be home only to Saturniidae species known from such a biome.

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Arsenurinae

Arsenura a. armida *
Arsenura mossi *
Arsenura ciocolatina *
Arsenura albopicta ?
Arsenura sylla ?
Arsenura thomsoni *
Arsenura batesi *
Arsenura ponderosa *
Copiop. semiramis ?
Copiopteryx jehovah *
Grammopelta lineata *
Paradaem. andensis *
Paradaem. nycteris *
Par. platydesmia *
Paradaemia samba ?
Rhescyntis hermes *
Titaea lemoulti *
Tit. tam. amazonensis *
Titaea timur *

Saturniinae

Cop. mielkeorum e
Copaxa simson *

Roths. a. rhodina *
Roths. e. erycina *
Roths. h. hesperus *
Ceratocampinae


Adeloneivaia acuta *
Ad. boisduvalii *
Adelon. c. catoxantha *
Adelon. c. lacrimata *
Adeloneivaia jason *?
Adeloneivaia pelias *
Ad. subangulata *

Adelowalk. eugenia ?
Adelowalker. plateada *
Adelowalkeria. torresi ?

Cicia pelota *

Citheronia aroa *
Citheronia hamifera *
Citheronia laocoon *
Citheronia phoronea ?
Citioica anthonilis *

Eacles adoxa *
Eacles barnesi *





Ceratocampinae


Eacles guianensis ?
Eacles imp. cacicus *
Eacles mas. fulvaster *
Eacles orm. peruviana *
Eacles penelope *

Oiticella convergens ?

Othorene hodeva *
Othor. purpurascens *
Othorene winbrechlini e

Procitheron. fenestrata *

Psilopygida walkeri *
Psilopygoides oda *

Ptiloscola photophila *

Schausie. longispina *
Schausiella polybia *
Schausie. subochreata *

Syssphinx molina *



Hemileucinae


Automerina caudatula *
Automerina cypria *
Automerula auletes *
Automer. balachowski ?
Automeris curvilinea *
Automeris duchartrei ?
Automeris janus *
Automeris moresca *
Automeris rostralis ?
Cerodirphia apunctata *
Dirphia acidalia *
Dirphia p. panamensis *
Dirphia tarquinia *
Gamelia paraensis *
Hylesia ebalus *
Hylesia gyrex *
Hylesia obtusa *
Hylesia subcottica *
Hyperch. nausica *
Leucan. newmani Mi
Lonomia a. diabolus ?
Lonomia descimoni *
Periphoba augur ?
Periphoba hircia *
Pseuda. eumedidoides *


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