NORTH BRAZIL: Rondonia

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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 Rondonia 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 Rondonia.

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.

Rondonia is mostly tropical rainforest at very low elevation with some savannah in the southern portions near Beni, Bolivia. In recent years there has been heavy deforestation in the rain forest.

Only a small number of Saturniidae species (all Hemileucinae) have been confirmed in Rondonia, but I believe most of the low elevation Amazonian rainforest species are probably present along with some of the savannah species associated with Beni, Bolivia, its neighbour to the south.

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Arsenurinae Arsenura a. armida ? Arsenura ciocolatina ? Arsenura sylla ? Arsenura thomsoni ? Arsenura batesi ? Copiopteryx semiramis ? Copiopteryx jehovah ? Grammopelta lineata ? Loxolomia johnsoni ? Paradaemonia nycteris ? Paradaemonia platydesmia ? Paradaemonia samba ? Titaea lemoulti ? Titaea timur ? Rhescyntis hermes ? Saturniinae Rothschildia aurota ? Rothschildia e. erycina ?

Ceratocampinae Adeloneivaia catharina ? Adeloneivaia c. catoxantha ? Adeloneivaia jason ? Adeloneivaia pelias ? Adelowalkeria eugenia ? Adelowalkeria plateada ? Citheronia aroa ? Citheronia hamifera ? Citheronia laocoon ? Citheronia phoronea ? Citioica anthonilis ? Eacles barnesi ? Eacles i. cacicus ? Eacles m. fulvaster ? Eacles o. peruviana ? Othorene hodeva ? O. winbrechlini e Procitheronia fenestrata ? Ptiloscola photophila ? Schausiella longispina ? Schausiella subochreata ? Syssphinx amena ? Syssphinx molina ?

Hemileucinae Automerina caudatula ? Automerina cypria ? Automerula auletes ? Automeris balachowski ? Automeris curvilinea ? Automeris duchartrei ? Automeris egeus ? Automeris hamata * Automeris janus * Automeris midea ? Automeris eris rostralis * Automeris styx ? Cerodirphia speciosa ? Dirphia fraterna CB? Dirphia rubricauda ? Gamelia abasia ? Gamelia abasiella ? Gamelia rindgei ? Gamelia rubriluna ? Gamelia viettei ? Hylesia ebalus ? Hylesia gyrex * Hylesia melanostigma ? Hylesia nanus ? Hylesia natex * Hylesia obtusa * Hylesia subcottica * Hyperchiria incisa gadouae ? Leucanella newmani ? Leucanella v. viridior ? Lonomia descimoni ? Periga angulosa ? Periga bispinosa ? Periphoba hircia ? Pseudodirphia agis * Pseudodirphia eumedidoides ?

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