DYSDAEMONIA OF THE WORLD
Dysdaemonia boreas female, copyright protected, Kirby Wolfe.
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Updated October 15, 2005 Updated as per Entomo-Satsphingia 2 (1): 56 – 61 (März 2009), (australoboreas, undulensis), Ron Brechlin, July 2009 This page has been updated August 24, 2015, based on reference material for Argentina, sent to me by Ezequiel Bustos, as cited in a recent publication: NÚÑEZ: Catálogo preliminar de Saturniidae de Argentina TROP. LEPID. RES., 25(1): 22-33, 2015 31. |
The Dysdaemonia genus belongs to the Arsenurini tribe of Subfamily Arsenurinae, Family Saturniidae.
The Arsenurini are a primitive tribe of very large moths (wingspans 150-200 mm) found in tropical South and Central America. All of them dwell in rain forests except for the montane species, Arsenura cymonia, which flies at altitudes above 1500 m.
Larvae , which in later instars lack the protuberances (scoli) of most other Saturniidae species, are large (120 mm), smooth-skinned, cylindrical and thick and pupate in subterranean chambers.
P australoboreas, Brechlin & Meister, 2009, Peru, northern Bolivia
P boreas
(Cramer, 1775) "West Indies", Mexico to
Panama to most of S. America
auster R. Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874, Surinam, synonym for boreas
P brasiliensis W. Rothschild, 1906 southeastern Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay (UD)
P concisa Becker, 2001 eastern Brazil
P fosteri W. Rothschild, 1906 Paraguay, Bolivia, Argentina, Brazil
cortesi Giacomelli, 1925, Argentina, synonym for fosteri several forms
fulva Breyer, 1933, Argentina, synonym for fosteri several forms
fusca Breyer, 1933, Argentina, synonym for fosteri several forms
grisea Breyer, 1933, Argentina, synonym for fosteri several forms
P undulensis, Brechlin & Meister, 2009, southern Bolivia
Dysdaemonia Summary, 2009
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