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Updated October 14, 2005 Updated as per Rio Grande do Sul: Arsenurinae and Ceratocampinae; April 25, 2013 Updated as per TROP. LEPID. RES., 25(1): 22-33, 2015: "NÚÑEZ: Catálogo preliminar de Saturniidae de Argentina", August 21, 2015 Updated as per personal communication with Ariadne Nury (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, April 7, 2017); April 8, 2017 Updated as per personal communication with Amanda Alves, via Geraldo Salgado, (Morro Reuter, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, March 18, 2021); March 18, 2021 |
This site has been created by Bill Oehlke. Comments, suggestions and/or additional information are welcomed by Bill.
TAXONOMY:Superfamily: Bombycoidea, Latreille, 1802 |
Arsenura biundulata male, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil,
April 7, 2017, courtesy of Ariadne Nury.
Note greater extension of white lobes toward outer margin on forewing postmedian line of Arsenura biundulata to the far left, compared to almost smooth bend in the same area on Arsenura aspasia to the immediate left. |
The pronunciation of scientific names is troublesome for many. The "suggestion" at the top of the page is
merely a suggestion. It is based on commonly accepted English pronunciation of Greek names and/or some
fairly well accepted "rules" for latinized scientific names.
The suggested pronunciations, on this page and on other pages, are primarily put forward to assist those who hear with internal ears as they read.
There are many collectors from different countries whose intonations and accents would be different.
Some of the early describers/namers chose genus and species names indicating some character of the insect, but more
often, they simply chose names from Greek or Roman mythology or history.
Those species names which end in "ensis" indicate a specimen locale, and those which end in "i", pronounced "eye", honour a contempory friend/collector/etc.
I do not know the source of the genus name "Arsenura" chosen by Duncan in 1841.
The species name "biundulata" probably refers to the two major undulations near the outer margin of the wings.
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