NORTH BRAZIL: Amapa

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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 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 Amapa.

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.

Most of the Amapá territory is covered with rainforest, while the remaining areas are covered with savannah and plains. Only very low elevation Saturniidae species would likely be found in Amapa.

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Arsenurinae


Arsenura albopicta ?
Arsenura armida armida *
Arsenura batesi ?
Arsenura beebei *
Arsenura ciocolatina ?
Arsenura mossi ?
Arsenura ponderosa ?
Arsenura sylla ?
Arsenura thomsoni ?

Copiopteryx semiramis *
Copiopteryx jehovah ?

Dysdaemonia boreas ?

Grammopelta lineata ?

Paradaem. nycteris ?
Paradaemonia platydesmia ?
Paradaemia samba ?
Paradaemonia terrena *

Rhescyntis hermes ?

Titaea lemoulti ?
Titaea tamerlan amazonensis ?
Titaea timur ?

Saturniinae


Copaxa bireni ?
Copaxa simson ?

Roths. areth. rhodina ?
Roths. aurota ?
Rothschildia erycina erycina ?
Rothschildia marona ?
Rothschildia he. hesperus ?




























Ceratocampinae


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

Adelowalker. eugenia ?
Adelowalker. plateada ?
Adelowalkeria. torresi ?

Cicia pelota ?

Citheronia aroa ?
Citheronia hamifera ?
Citheronia laocoon ?
Citheronia phoronea ?

Citioica anthonilis *

Eacles acuta RSL
Eacles adoxa ?
Eacles barnesi ?
Eacles guianensis ?
Eacles i. cacicus ?
Eacles m. fulvaster ?
Eacles o. peruviana *
Eacles penelope ?

Oiticella convergens ?

Othorene hodeva *
Othorene purpurascens *
Othorene winbrechlini ?

Procitheron. fenestrata ?

Psilopygida walkeri ?
Psilopygoides oda ?

Ptiloscola photophila *

Schausie. longispina ?
Schausiella polybia *
Schausiella subochreata ?

Syssphinx molina *




















Hemileucinae


Ancistrota plagia *

Automerina caudatula ?
Automerina cypria ?

Automeris arminia ?
Automeris balachowski ?
Automeris bilinea ?
Automeris curvilinea ?
Automeris duchartrei ?
Automeris egeus *
Automeris godartii ?
Automeris janus ?
Automeris larra *
Automeris liberia ?
Automeris moresca ?
Automeris orestes ?
Automeris rostralis ?
Automeris watsoni ?
Automeris wayampi *

Automerula auletes ?
Automerula bahiletes ?

Cerodirphia apunctata ?

Dirphia acidalia ?
Dirphia p. panamensis ?
Dirphia tarquinia ?
Dirphia thliptophana ?

Gamelia berliozi *
Gamelia paraensis ?

Hylesia athlia ?
Hylesia cedomnibus ?
Hylesia cottica ?
Hylesia ebalus ?
Hylesia gigantix orbana ?
Hylesia gyrex ?
Hylesia indurata ?
Hylesia metabus ?
Hylesia murex ?
Hylesia obtusa ?
Hylesia olivenca ?
Hylesia pallidex ?
Hylesia subcottica ?
Hylesia tapareba ?
Hylesia teratex ?
Hylesia thaumex ?
Hylesia umbrata ?

Hyperchiria aniris ?
Hyperch. nausica *

Leucan. newmani Mi

Lonomia achelous diabolus *
Lonomia descimoni ?

Periga angulosa ?

Periphoba augur ?
Periphoba hircia *

Pseuda. eumedidoides *
Pseudautomeris irene ?

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