NORTH BRAZIL: Tocantins

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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 Tocantins 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 Tocantins.

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.

Tocantins geography is varied. It straddles both the Amazon Rainforest and the coastal savanna. Many rivers (including the Tocantins River) traverse the state.

Most of Tocantins (except the extreme western and northern regions) is situated within a vast Brazilian area known as the cerrado. The cerrado region's typical climate is hot and semi-humid, with pronounced seasonal variation marked by a dry winter from May through October.

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Arsenurinae Arsenura meander ? Titaea tamerlan amazonensis ? Saturniinae Copaxa mielkeorum ?

Ceratocampinae Citheronia laocoon ? Citioica anthonilis ? Eacles imp. cacicus ? Neorcarnegia basirei ? Othorene purpurascens ? Psilopygida walkeri ? Scolesa nebulosa ? Syssphinx molina ?

Hemileucinae Automeris rostralis ? Cerodirphia apunctata ? Dirphia fraterna ? Dirphia moderata ? Pseudodirphia eumedidoides ?

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