Asthenidia podaliraria
(Westwood, 1841)
Asthenia
Asthenidia podaliraria male, Misiones, Argentina,
courtesy of Cristian Klimaitis, La Plata Museum,
Colección DNA Barcodes Lepidoptera de Argentina,
Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales ¨Bernardino Rivadavia¨ (MACN)
Av. Angel Gallardo 470 (1405)
Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, via Ezequiel Núñez Bustos.
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TAXONOMY:Superfamily: Bombycoidea, Latreille, 1802 |
"The.Girl.from.Ipanema"
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DISTRIBUTION:
Asthenidia podaliraria (forewing length: 24-28mm) flies in
Brazil: Rio de Janeiro; probably throughout southeastern Brazil; and in
Argentina: Misiones (EB). I suspect this species also flies in the rest of southeastern Brazil in
Sao Paulo, Parana, Santa Catarina, Mato Grosso do Sul, and possibly southeastern Minas Gerais.
In some taxonomies, the Oxyteninae are treated as a subfamily of Oxytenidae rather than as a subfamily of Saturniidae.
"White. Antenna drab brown. Wings with three narrow drab brown bands, the outer one of them submarginal, on forewing a thin discocellular bar, apex of forewing brownish black above and below. On hindwing the fringe brownish black from costal angle to tail ; the black spot in front of tail with an orange spot at the outer margin. No submarginal line on underside.
"Proximal pair of spurs of hindtibia much reduced, usually vestigial only, concealed in the scaling of the tibia. In forewing the cell closed, the discocellular D' being distinct though very thin, M^ stalked with R', not arising from cell. In hindwing the cell open ; SC^ stalked with R^.
"(J. Eighth abdominal segment without distinction, the species therein differing much from the other species ; the apical margin of the eighth sternite medianly slightly convex (PI. ix. fig. 1, VIII. st.), feebly chitinised. Tenth tergite (X. t.) very broad, without median process, but the lateral apical angles produced as a blunt cone (PI. ix. fig. 2). Tenth sternite (X. st.) raised into a prominent transverse ridge which projects laterad and is armed with teeth at the apex of this lateral projection. Anal cone very large (An), strongly chitinised ventrally and laterally, sharply defined. The clasper composed of two processes, P^ finger- shaped in ventral aspect, but pointed if viewed from the side (PI. ix. fig. 'S) ; process P^ broad from base to beyond middle, here abruptly narrowed and sinuate, the apex compressed, twisted, sharply pointed, and curved upward ; flap CI absent. Penis-sheath (Pen) thin, with small apical hook.",p>
Asthenidia podaliraria male (verso), Misiones, Argentina,
courtesy of Cristian Klimaitis, La Plata Museum,
Colección DNA Barcodes Lepidoptera de Argentina,
Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales ¨Bernardino Rivadavia¨ (MACN)
Av. Angel Gallardo 470 (1405)
Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, via Ezequiel Núñez Bustos.
FLIGHT TIMES AND PREFERRED FOOD PLANTS:
The Asthenidia podaliraria moth probably broods continuously.
Asthenidia podaliraria male, Misiones, Argentina,
courtesy of Cristian Klimaitis, La Plata Museum,
Colección DNA Barcodes Lepidoptera de Argentina,
Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales ¨Bernardino Rivadavia¨ (MACN)
Av. Angel Gallardo 470 (1405)
Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, via Ezequiel Núñez Bustos.
ECLOSION, SCENTING AND MATING:
EGGS, LARVAE, COCOONS, AND PUPAE:
Like the other Oxyteninae, Asthenidia larvae have sticky glands on all body segments.
Larval Food Plants
It is hoped that this alphabetical listing followed by the common name of the foodplant will prove useful. The list is not exhaustive.
Experimenting with closely related foodplants is worthwhile.
Larval Food Plants
It is hoped that this alphabetical listing followed by the common name of the foodplant will prove useful. The list is not exhaustive. Experimenting with closely related foodplants is worthwhile.
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