Almeidaia romualdoi
Travassos, 1937
Almeidaia romualdoi holotype male (only known specimen
of this rarest species),
Eugênio Lefrèvre, 1200 m, Campos de
Jordão, São Paulo, Brazil, courtesy of
Eurides Furtado.
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Updated from Lemaire's Arsenurinae, 1980, October 13, 2005;
January 11, 2007 Updated as per personal communication with Eurides Furtado, 2005 |
Almeidaia romualdoi holotype male (only known specimen
of this rarest species),
Eugênio Lefrèvre, 1200 m, Campos de
Jordão, São Paulo, Brazil, courtesy of
Eurides Furtado.
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TAXONOMY:Superfamily: Bombycoidea, Latreille, 1802 |
"The.Girl.from.Ipanema"
midi by Mel WebbON.OFF |
This species has elongated narrow forewings with hooked tips. The ground colour of the forewings is orange, becoming white in the basal area. The hindwings are a translucent white. There is also some orange along the top of the hindwing from the basal area to the apex.
Almeidaia aidae male, Brazil, courtesy of Eurides Furtado.
Almeidaia romualdoi male, Brazil, courtesy of Eurides Furtado.
"The pair illustrated by LEMAIRE 1988 (The Saturniidae of America - Ceratocampinae) is Almeidaia aidae, not A. romualdoi." Eurides Furtado.
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