NORTHEAST BRAZIL: Bahia

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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 (mostly thorn scrub, some savanna, Tropical Forest along coast). 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 Atl�ntica (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.

Arsenurinae Arsenura meander ? Arsenura pandora ? Copiop. s. phoenix A&FW Copiop. sonthonnaxi A&FW Titaea t. amazonensis * Saturniinae Saturniini Copaxa canella * Copaxa flavobrunnea * Copaxa mielkeorum e Attacini Rothschildia belus Rothschildia prionia * Roths. speculifer rubra e

Ceratocampinae Adeloneivaia bahiana e Citheronia laocoon * Ducunju jucunda * Eacles fairchildi CM Eacles imperialis magnifica VB Neorcarnegia basirei * Oiticella brevis * Oiticella convergens * Oth. kitchingi e Othor. purpurascens * Psilopygida walkeri * Ptiloscola cinerea ? Schausiella arpi * Schausi. subochreata * Scolesa nebulosa ? Syssphinx molina *

Hemileucinae Aut.ella winbrechlini e Automerula bahiletes e Automeris bahamata e Automeris bilinea Automeris granulosa (NL) Automeris illustris * Automeris melanops * Automeris rectilinea ? Catacantha bahiginea e Cerod. bahikani e C. chrisbrechlinae e Dirphia fraterna ? Dirphia moderata ? Eubergia argyrea ? Eub. peggyae * Gamelia abahiana e Gamelia camacana e Gamelia lampei e

Hemileucinae Hylesia ebalus * Hylesia nanus * Hylesia subcottica * Hylesia tapareba * Hyperchiria bahisa e Hyperch. i. gadouae *? Lonomia leopoldina e Lonomia obliqua * Lonomia rufobahiana e Per. camacana e Per. falcbahiana e Per. fuscbahiana e Periga insidiosa * Periga spatulata * Per. spatulatoides e Periphoba courtini * Proh. bahiana N Proh. bahikani N Pseudaut. erubescens * Pseudaut. brasiliensis *

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Eumorpha capronnieri, near Una, August 20, 2016, Steen Hjorth.