TRAVASSOSULA OF THE WORLD
Travassosula subfumata courtesy of Bernhard Wenczel.
Travassosula subfumata male, Itanhandu, Minas Gerais, Brazil,
January 16, 2013, courtesy of Larry Valentine, id by Bill Oehlke.
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Updated as per Lemaire's Hemileucinae 2002, January 5, 2005 Updated as per personal communication with Larry Valentine (Itanhandu, Minas Gerais, Brazil, January 16, 2013): January 17, 2013 Updated as per Entomo Satsphingia, Jahrgang 7 Heft 3 30.09.2014; December 6, 2014 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 Entomo Satsphingia, Jahrgang 13 Heft 1 24.04.2020; January 28, 2021 |
Travassosula subfumata male, Itanhandu, Minas Gerais, Brazil,
January 16, 2013, courtesy of Larry Valentine, id by Bill Oehlke.
The genus Travassosula belongs to the Hemileucini Tribe of Subfamily Hemileucinae in the Saturniidae Family. Moths have a notch near the apex of the hindwing.
Larvae have urticating spines, and members of this genus are found in South America.
P indicates an image is available. The first country listed is the specimen type locality. New for 2020:
N kaechi Brechlin, 2020 Ecuador: Napo
N chuquisaciana Brechlin & Meister 2014 Bolivia: Chuquisaca
N madrediosiana Brechlin & Meister 2014 Peru: Madre de Dios
P mulierata, Lemaire, 1971
Peru: Junin, Cusco, Madre de Dios, Puno
P subfumata, (Schaus, 1921)
southeastern Brazil,
Bolivia
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