NORTHEAST BRAZIL: Alagoas

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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 Alagoas 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 (Atlantic Forest (coastal); Thorn Scrub (inland)). Those interpolations are followed by "?" to indicate I have no confirmed reports, but I anticipate the species has a range including the state of Alagoas.

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.

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Sometimes only hundreds of meters behind the Atlantic Coast beaches and defined by steep scarps, lies a stretch of green coastal hills, scarce remnants of the Mata Atlāntica (Atlantic Rain Forest) that now is largely limited to steep hill tops or steep valley sides and bottoms.

Still farther inland lies the Sertao of the Northeast region of the nation. The Sertao is a high dry region dominated by scrub that is often thorn-filled and sometimes toxic, the caatinga.

Only low elevation (under 1000m) species would be found in Alagoas.

Everson Cardoso confirms a presence of Dirphia moderata in Alagoas with the following image.

Dirphia moderata, Jequia da Praia, Alagoas, Brazil,
July 11, 2016, courtesy of Everson Cardoso.

Arsenurinae Copiop. s. phoenix CM Paradaemia berlai * Saturniinae Rothschildia prionia *

Ceratocampinae Adeloneivaia minuta * Citheronia laocoon * Citioica anthonilis * Dacunju jucunda ? Eacles imperialis cacicus * Eacles manuelita * Oiticella brevis ? Othorene purpurascens ? Psilopygida walkeri ? Ptiloscola cinerea ? Schausiella arpi * Syssphinx molina ?

Hemileucinae Automeris a. amoena * Automeris bilinea Automeris melanops * Automeris rectilinea * Cerodirphia flavosignata * Dirphia moderata EC Eubergia argyrea Hylesia ebalus * Hyperchiria incisa gadouae * Pseudautomeris erubescens *

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