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Updated as per Lemaire's Hemileucinae 2002, November 17, 2005 Updated as per personal communication with Carlos Mielke (added schmiti), April 9, 2007 Updated as per Museum WITT Munchen internet publication, Brechlin and Meister, January 11, 2011 Updated as per Global Mirror System of DNA Barcoding Analysis (locations and dates of BOLD submissions), January 2012 Updated as per Entomo-Satsphingia Jahrgang 4, Heft 4, 21.10.2011 and Jahrgang 3, Heft 5, 18.11.2010; November 28, 2012 Updated as per Entomo-Satsphingia Jahrgang 5 Heft 1 11.04.2012; November 13, 2013 |
HYPERCHIRIA HUBNER, [1819]The genus Hyperchiria belongs to the Subfamily Hemileucinae in the Saturniidae Family. These medium sized moths all have a hindwing iris that is either red, orange or black. The forewing apex is strongly produced and truncated in all species except H. orodina.H. orodina also lacks a median band. All adults of this genus have a dark (black) longitudinal middorsal striga or stripe on the thorax. The abdomen is yellow and broadly ringed with black dorsally except in H. plicata, which is without the rings. Larvae have urticating spines. Hyperchiria incisa larva copyright Kirby Wolfe. P indicates an image is available. The first country listed is the specimen type locality. |
Brechlin & Meister 2010-2011 now divide Hyperchiria into four groups:
Nausica Group:
P azteca
(Draudt, 1929) Mexico,
possibly Belize and possibly
western Guatemala
P nausica (Cramer, 1779)
Suriname,
French Guiana,
possibly Guyana, possibly northern Brazil
N carabobensis Brechlin & Meister 2010
Venezuela: Carabobo
P meridaensis Brechlin & Meister 2010
Venezuela: Merida
P nausioccidentalis Brechlin & Meister 2010
eastern Ecuador, eastern
Peru, northwestern
Bolivia
N columbiana
Brechlin & Meister 2010
Colombia: Tolima
N <volcana Brechlin, Kach & Meister 2011
northwestern Ecuador: Pichincha,; Manabi
P sanjuensis
Brechlin & Meister 2010
Nicaragua: San Juan
N rincon Brechlin & Meister 2012
Costa Rica: Guanacaste: Volcan Rincon
P jinotegaensis Brechlin & Meister 2010
Nicaragua: Jinotega
P guatemalensis Brechlin & Meister 2010
Guatemala: Alta Verapaz;
Honduras
Plicata Group:
P plicata
(Herrich-Schaeffer, [1855]) southeastern
Brazil
P acuta
(Conte, 1906) northeastern Peru,
Ecuador,
Colombia ??,
Bolivia ??
Automeris flavus Conte, 1906, Peru, is a synonym for acuta
P acutapex Brechlin & Meister 2010
Bolivia: La Paz
P australoacuta
Brechlin & Meister 2010
central Peru,
northern Bolivia
N extremapex Brechlin & Meister 2010
Bolivia: La Paz
P interacuta
Brechlin & Meister 2011
central Peru: Junin
P parallela Brechlin, Kach & Meister 2011
northwestern Ecuador: Carchi; Pichincha
N parda Brechlin, Kach & Meister 2011
Ecuador: Tungurahua
Incisa Group:
P incisa incisa
Walker, 1855 southeastern
Brazil, northeastern
Argentina
Io orodes Boisduval, 1875, Brazil, is a synonym for incisa incisa
N bahisa Brechlin & Meister 2012
Brazil: Bahia
P bicolor (Bouvier, 1930)
Paraguay,
Bolivia
P gadouae Lemaire, 1967
Venezuela,
Peru,
Bolivia,
Brazil
P cuscoincisoides Brechlin & Meister 2010
Peru: Cusco
N incisoides
Brechlin & Meister 2010
Brazil: Ceara
P misionincisoides Brechlin & Meister 2010
Argentina: Misiones;
Paraguay
P orodina (Schaus, 1900)
Paraguay,
Brazil,
Argentina
P schmiti Meister & Knorke, 2004
Argentina
Aniris Group:
P aniris (Jordan, 1910)
Guyana,
French Guiana;
? Surinam
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