CENTRAL BRAZIL: MATO GROSSO DO SUL

This page is dedicated to Neuza Silva who provides the following image of Automeris hamata. Lemaire did not have reports of its existence in MS.

Automeris hamata, Miranda, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil,
March 4, 2016, courtesy of Neuza Silva, id by Bill Oehlke.

Titaea orsinome grey female, Reserva Vale da Solidão,
14o22’S 56o07’W, Mato Grosso, Brazil, courtesy of Eurides Furtado copyright.

Many thanks also go to the other individuals who have contributed images and information and have helped with identifications and corrections to flesh out the active links listed below.

These provisional checklists of the different Saturniidae subfamilies 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).

I have made many of my own interpolations from those works. Those interpolations are followed by "?" to indicate I have no confirmed reports, but I anticipate the species has a range including the state of Mato Grosso do Sul.

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. However, Mato Grosso do Sul has not been studied as extensively as have some of the southeastern states. Much of Mato Grosso do Sul constists of Cerrado, a vast tropical savanna ecoregion which consists of plateaus and forest savanna, wooded savanna, park savanna and gramineous-woody savannaas well as savanna wetlands.

It is my understanding that there has been much deforestation due to harvesting wood for lumber and roots for charcoal. The land is extensively used for agricultural purposes now. Much electricity is produced using biomass fuels and sugar cane is cultivated for that on large plantations.

Possibly there are very few (none) Ceratocampinae recordings for Mato Grosso do Sul due to annual flooding of low lying areas during the wet season. I did see a report indicating Adeloneivaia subangulata in Mato Grosso do Sul, but I feel that is quite questionable.

This website is designed and maintained by Bill Oehlke who can be reached at oehlkew@islandtelecom.com. If you have additions, corrections, data, images, etc., please send to Bill Oehlke.

Arsenurinae Almeidaia aidae EF Paradaemia thelia * Titaea orsinome ? Saturniinae Copaxa simson ? Rothschildia arethusa rhodina ? Rothschildia aurota ? Rothschildia e. erycina ? Rothschildia lutea ? Rothschildia jacobaeae ?

Ceratocampinae Adeloneivaia acuta ? Adeloneivaia boisduvalii ? Adeloneivaia catharina ? Adeloneivaia jason ? Adwalkeria eugenia ? Ceropoda tibialis ? Cicia citrina ? Cicia pamala ? Citheronia aroa ? Citheronia laocoon ? Citheronia phoronea ? Citheronia vogleri ? Citioica anthonilis ? Eacles masoni fulvaster ? Neorcarnegia basirei ? Oiticella convergens ? Othorene purpurascens ? Psilopygida crispula ? Schausiella subochreata ? Scolesa hypoxantha ?

Hemileucinae Automeris hamata NS Automeris naranja * Catacantha latifasciata * Cerodirphia apunctata ? Dirphia avia * Dirphia moderata * Dirphia p. panamensis * Eubergia caisa * Eudyaria zeta * Hylesia ebalus * Hylesia obtusa * Hylesia scortina * Hylesia subcottica * Hyperchiria orodina * Kentroleuca dukinfieldi * Travassosula subfumata ?

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