El Oro Province, Ecuador

Bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the northwest, sister Ecuadorian provinces of Guayas to the north, Azuay to the northeast, Loja to the southeast and south, and the country of Peru to the southwest, El Oro is divided into fourteen cantons and has a varied terrain with the western slopes of the Andes dominating the eastern cantons.

In general, the province has a semi-humid tropical climate with average temperature of 23 degrees Centigrade.

Automeris belti zaruma male by Viktor Suter, courtesy of Bernhard Wenczel.

Those species followed by CL are confirmed by Claude Lemaire; those followed by LR are confirmed by Luigi Racheli. N.B.: Those species followed by my initials, WO, are unconfirmed, but I feel they might be present.

There are probably more species present than are recorded in the table below.