NORTHEAST BRAZIL: Sergipe

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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 (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 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 Atlāntica (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.

Mostly low elevation (under 1000m) species would be found in Sergipe. The western half of the state has a caatinga biome while the eastern part has remnants of the Atlantic Forest. There is a good possiblity that there are additional species in the Atlantic Forest, or if some species have been extinguished, they may rebound if reforestation occurs.

Arsenurinae Copiop. s. phoenix ? Paradaemia berlai * Saturniinae R. prionia *

Ceratocampinae Adeloneivaia minuta * Citheronia laocoon * Citioica anthonilis * Dacundju jucunda ? Eacles imp. cacicus * Eacles manuelita * Oiticella brevis ? Othorene purpurascens ? Psilopygida. walkeri ? Ptiloscola cinerea ? Schausiella arpi * Syssphinx molina ?

Hemileucinae Automeris a. amoena * Automeris melanops * Automeris rectilinea * Cerdirphia flavosignata * Dirphia moderata ? Eubergia argyrea Hylesia ebalus * Hyperchiria incisa gadouae * Pseudautomeris erubescens *

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