NORTH BRAZIL: Amazonas

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.

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 Amazonas 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 Amazonas.

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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The following specimen comes from Guajara, Amazonas, Brazil, probably elevation around 12 m. I have tentativley identified it as Arsenura albopicta due to enlarged white markings near anal angle of all wings. I have also made significant digital repair, mostly to hindwings.

Arsenura albopicta male, Guajara, Amazonas, Brazil,
March 7, 2018, courtesy of Rafael Almeida via Geraldo Salgado,
tentative id and digital repairs by Bill Oehlke.

Amazonas is probably home only to low elevation, Amazon Rain Forest species. It may be many years before the true Saturniidae diversity is known from this state.

Arsenurinae Arsenura a. armida * Arsenura mossi * Arsenura ciocolatina * Arsenura albopicta * Arsenura sylla ? Arsenura thomsoni ? Arsenura batesi * Arsenura batesii arcaei * Copiopteryx semiramis * Copiopteryx jehovah ? Grammopelta lineata * Paradaemonia nycteris ? Paradaemonia platydesmia ? Paradaemonia samba ? Rhescyntis hermes ? Titaea lemoulti * Titaea tamerlan amazonensis * Titaea timur * Saturniinae Saturniini Copaxa simson ? Saturniinae Attacini Rothschildia arethusa rhodina ? Rothschildia aurota ? Rothschildia erycina erycina * Rothschildia hesper. hesperus *

Ceratocampinae Adeloneivaia c. catoxantha * Adeloneivaia jason * Adeloneivaia pelias * Adelowalkeria eugenia ? Adelowalkeria plateada * Cicia pelota * Citheronia aroa ? Citheronia hamifera ? Citheronia phoronea ? Eacles adoxa ? Eacles barnesi * Eacles guianensis * Eacles imperialis cacicus * Eacles m. fulvaster ? Eacles o. peruviana ? Eacles penelope * Oiticella convergens ? Othorene hodeva * Othorene winbrechlini e Procitheronia fenestrata ? Psilopygida apollinairei TW Psilopygoides oda ? Ptiloscola photophila * Schausiella longispina ? Schausiella polybia * Schausiella subochreata * Syssphinx molina *

Hemileucinae Automerina caudatula * Automerina cypria * Automeris balachowski ? Automeris curvilinea * Automeris duchartrei ? Automeris goodsoni * Automeris hamata * Automeris innoxia * Automeris janus * Automeris larra * Automeris moresca * Cerodirphia apunctata * Cerodirphia speciosa * Dirphia aculea * Dirphia thliptofana * Gamelia rindguayana e Gamelia rubriluna * Hylesia ebalus * Hylesia gyrex * Hylesia obtusa * Hylesia subcottica * Hylesia tapareba * Hyperchiria incisa gadouae ? Lonomia a. diabolus * Lonomia descimoni ? Periphoba hircia * Periphoba augur ? Pseudodirphia agis inflexa * Pseudodirphia alba * Pseudodirphia eumedidoides *

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