HIDRIPA OF THE WORLD
Updated as per Heppner's Checklist: Part 4B 1996, January 2, 2005
Updated as per Lemaire's Hemileucinae 2002, January 2, 2005
Corrected as per personal communication with Carlos Mielke, April 9, 2007
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.
Updated as per Entomom-Satsphingia Jahrgang 8 Heft 02 31.07.2015; December 15, 2015

HIDRIPA OF THE WORLD

Hidripa paranensis courtesy of Bernhard Wenczel.

HIDRIPA DRAUDT, 1929

The genus Hidripa belongs to the Hemileucini Tribe of Subfamily Hemileucinae in the Saturniidae Family. Larvae have urticating spines, and members of this genus are found in South America.

The genus name, Hidripa, Draudt, ??might?? just be a rearrangement of the letters in Dirphia. Draudt put forward the genus names, Dihirpa, Hidripa and Hirpida, all in 1929-30. Hirpida guajoni (type species) was originally placed in the Dirphia genus by Dognin, 1894; Hidripa ruscheweyhi (type species) was originally placed in Dirphia genus by Berg, 1885; Dihirpa litura was originaly placed in Dirphia genus by Walker, 1855.

Females have woolly white hairs on the sides of the abdomen, and both sexes have eyespot-like discal spots on the hindwings. The postmedial line is usually undulating, and the forewing discal spot is usually "v" shaped, black and edged wtih yellow.

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

Listing of Hidripa

N cochabambensis Brechlin & Meister, 2015 Bolivia: Cochabamba
N perdbahiana Brechlin & Meister, 2015 Brazil: Bahia
N perdmisionesa Brechlin & Meister, 2015 Argentina: Misiones
N tagmisionesa Brechlin & Meister, 2015 Argentina: Misiones




N albipellis Draudt, 1930 Peru
P gschwandneri Draudt, 1930 Bolivia, Argentina
P paranensis (Bouvier, 1929) southeastern Brazil, possibly Peru
weymeri Draudt, 1930, Brazil, is a synonym for paranensis
P perdix (Maassen & Weyding, 1885) southeastern Brazil
P ruscheweyhi (Berg, 1885) Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay (UD)
P taglia (Schaus, 1896) southeastern Brazil, Paraguay (UD); Argentina replaced by tagmisionesa in Misiones, Argentina.

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