AUTOMERELLA OF THE WORLD
Updated as per Lemaire's Hemileucinae 2002, November 3, 2005
Updated as per personal communication with Carlos Mielke (Parana), April 2008, July 2009
Updated as per personal communication with Larry valentine (flexuosa female, Itanhandu, Minas Gerais, Brazil, September 4, 2012); September 4, 2012
Updated as per personal communication with Luis Cesar Tejo (aurora male, Misiones, Argentina); November 26, 2013

AUTOMERELLA OF THE WORLD

Automerella flexuosa courtesy of Bernhard Wenczel.

AUTOMERELLA MICHENER, 1949

The genus Automerella belongs to the Subfamily Hemileucinae in the Saturniidae Family. These moths look like Automeris species. Eyespots are small and forewing postmedial line is lunulate, especially near the costa, and preapical.

Larvae have urticating spines.

P indicates an image is available. The first country listed is the specimen type locality.

All three of the Automerella species are endemic to southeastern Brazil, with flexuosa possibly ranging into northeastern Argentina.

Listing of Automerella

P aurora (Maassen & Weyding, 1885) southeastern Brazil: Espirito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, Parana (CM), Sao Paulo, Santa Catarina; Argentina: Misiones (LCT)
rubicunda (Schaus, 1892), Brazil, is a synonym for aurora
P flexuosa (R. Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874) southeastern Brazil: Santa Catarina, Parana (CM), Minas Gerais (LV), Rio Grande do Sul; ? northeastern Argentina
bouvieri (Conte, 1906), Brazil, is a synonym for flexuosa
mendosa (Boisduval, 1875), is a synonym for flexuosa
P miersi Lemaire & C. Mielke, 1998 southeastern Brazil: Santa Catarina

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