SOUTHEASTERN BRAZIL: PARANA
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Dr. Mielke has provided me with many electronic images, has frequently
assisted with identifications and corrections, and has provided much information, including copies of his recently co-authored descriptions of "new" species.
In April of 2008, Dr. Mielke sent me his extensive checklist of Saturniidae from Parana, listing 100 Hemileucinae, 11 Saturniinae,
18 Arsenurinae and 38 Ceratocampinae, for a total of one-hundred-fifty-seven species.This page is inspired by and dedicated to Dr. Carlos C. G. Mielke of Parana, Brazil.
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, particularly if a species was described from both Sao Paulo to the north and Santa Catarina to the south. Those interpolations are followed by "?" to indicate I have no confirmed reports, but I anticipate the species has a range including the state of Parana. Almost all of the species I had identified as possibilities (?) have now been confirmed by Carlos Mielke (c).
Tom Binter (t) has provided an image and data for Hylesia scortina.
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.
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.
Many thanks to Gislaine Marusak who shares the follow image of a larva I have identified as that of Automeris illustris.
Automeris illustris fifth instar, Telemaco-Borba, Parana, Brazil,
April 20, 2016, courtesy of Gislaine Marusak, id by Bill Oehlke
This state includes two geographic regions, a narrow coastal zone that that is home to the Serra do Mar coastal forests, and a high plateau (2500 to 3000 ft.) whose precipitous, deeply eroded eastern escarpments are known as the Serra do Mar or Serra de Cubatão.
The southern and central portions of the state are covered by the Araucaria moist forests. There are large tracts of Yerba Mate (Ilex paraguayensis). The plateau slopes westward to the Paraná river, is well watered and moderately fertile, and has a remarkably uniform climate of a mild temperate character.
The lower western and northern portions of the state are covered by the Paraná-Paraíba interior forests ecoregion.
The larger rivers of the state comprise the Paranapanema and its tributaries the Cinza and Tibagi, the Ivaí, Piquiri, Jejuí-Guaçu, and the Iguaçu with its principal tributary the Rio Negro. The Paranapanema and a small tributary, the Itararé, form the boundary line with São Paulo west of the Serra do Mar, and the Iguaçu and Negro, the boundary line with Santa Catarina and Argentina - both streams having their sources in the Serra do Mar and flowing westward to the Paraná. The other streams have shorter courses, and all are obstructed by falls and rapids.
Twenty miles above the mouth of the Iguaçu are the Iguaçu Falls, 215 ft. high, broken into twenty or more falls separated by rocks and islands, and surrounded by a wild, unsettled and wooded country. The surface of the plateau is undulating.
Many thanks to Surian Persona Serbake who provides imaes of Saturniidae and Sphingidae from Curitiba, Parana, Brazil.
Automeris illustris fifth instar, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil,
December 15, 2015, courtesy of Surian Persona Serbake.
Hemileucinae larva, final instar, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil,
December 15, 2015, courtesy of Surian Persona Serbake.
Dirphia curitiba 5l, (questionable id), Curitiba, Parana, Brazil,
February 5, 2021, courtesy of Andre Guilherme, seems to belong to avia group.
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