NORTHEAST BRAZIL: Paraiba

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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 Paraiba 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 cerrado/scrub thorn; Tropical Forest along east 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 Paraiba.

Probably most species are to be found in the tropical forest near the east coast.

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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Arsenurinae Arsenura meander ? Paradaemonia balsasensis ? Paradaemia berlai * Saturniinae none reported

Ceratocampinae Adeloneivaia minuta ? Citheronia laocoon ? Citioica anthonilis ? Dacunju jucunda ? Eacles imperialis cacicus ? Eacles manuelita ? Oiticella brevis ? Othorene kitchingi ? Othorene cearaiana ? Othorene purpurascens ? Psilopygida walkeri ? Ptiloscola cinerea ? Scolesa nebulosa ? Syssphinx molina ?

Hemileucinae Automeris a. amoena * Automeris bilinea ? Automeris elcearaiana ? Automeris egeus * Dirphia fraterna * Dirphia moderata * Dirphia rubricauda ? Dirphia tarquinia * Eubergia argyrea ? Hylesia ebalus * Hyperchiria bahisa ? Hyperchiria incisoides ? Hyperchiria i. gadouae * Leucanella m. memusae ? Lonomia obliqua ? Psuedautomeris erubescens ?

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