Dirphia avia/<font color=red>triangulum</font>

Dirphia avia
Stoll, 1780

Dirphia avia/triangulum male, Serra Da Mantiqueira, Minas Gerais, Brazil,
March 7, 2008, courtesy of Larry Valentine.

Dirphia avia/triangulum male and female, Itanhandu, southern Minas Gerais, Brazil,
January 22, 2010, courtesy of Larry Valentine.

Dirphia avia/triangulum male, Itanhandu, southern Minas Gerais, Brazil,
January 22, 2010, courtesy of Larry Valentine.

Dirphia avia/triangulum male, Itanhandu, southern Minas Gerais, Brazil,
January 22, 2010, courtesy of Larry Valentine.

Dirphia avia/triangulum female, Itanhandu, southern Minas Gerais, Brazil,
January 22, 2010, courtesy of Larry Valentine.

Dirphia avia/triangulum male and female, Itanhandu, southern Minas Gerais, Brazil,
January 22, 2010, courtesy of Larry Valentine.

Dirphia avia/triangulum male and female (verso), Itanhandu, southern Minas Gerais, Brazil,
January 22, 2010, courtesy of Larry Valentine.

Larry reports this species as quite common in January.

Dirphia triangulum from southeastern Brazil has recently been resurrected from synonymity with Dirphia avia. I do not know if it is sympatric with or replaces D. avia in southeastern Brazil. Thus far the specimen images sent to me by Larry Valentine from southeastern Minas Gerais, Brazil, are good matches for the Entomo-Satsphingia image of Dirphia triangulum from Santa Catarina, Brazil.

TAXONOMY:

Superfamily: Bombycoidea, Latreille, 1802
Family Saturniidae Boisduval, [1837] 1834
Subfamily: Hemileucinae, Grote & Robinson, 1866
Tribe: Hemileucini, Grote & Robinson, 1866
Genus: Dirphia, Hubner, 1819

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