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Updated as per Lemaire's Arsenurinae 1980,
November 2, 2005; July 27, 2006 Updated as per personal communication with Kirby Wolfe, July 27, 2006 Polillas Saturnidas de Colombia, 1997, Angela R. Amarillo-S., January 2007 Updated as per L. Racheli & T. Racheli, SHILAP, Vol. 33, # 130, 2005, March 2007 Updated as per personal communication with Vladimir Izersky (Ucayali, Peru; October-November; 350m), November 29, 2008 Updated as per personal communication with Peter Bruce-Jones (Pantiacolla Lodge, Cusco, Peru, September); January 30, 2010 Updated as per personal communication with Hubert Mayer (Picurayacu, Iquitos, Loreto, Peru, April 10, 2009); August 15, 2011 Updated as per personal communication with Johan van't Bosch (Brownsberg National Park, Brokopondo, Suriname, July 10, 2011); November 19, 2012 Updated as per personal communication with Tim Taylor (Bergendal Resort, Brokopondo, Suriname, November 25, 2018); December 18, 2018 |
This site has been created by
Bill Oehlke.
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Bill.
TAXONOMY:Superfamily: Bombycoidea, Latreille, 1802 |
I suspect Copiopteryx jehovah can
also be found in Guyana and
Suriname: Brokopondo (confirmd by JVB and TT), Sipaliwini. |
Copiopteryx jehovah male, Brownsberg National Park, Brokopondo, Suriname,
July 10, 2011, courtesy of Johan van't Bosch, digital repair by Bill Oehlke.
Copiopteryx jehovah male, Bergendal Resort, Brokopondo, Suriname,
November 25, 2018, 5:00 am. courtesy of Tim Taylor.
The angle at which the median band intersects the R5 below the costa is decidely acute in jehovah, while in sonthonnaxi, a smaller species with shorter tails, but also with undulating forewing outer margins, the angle of intersection is not nearly as sharp. The triangular hyaline spot near the middle of the median line also tends to be wider in jehovah.
Copiopteryx jehovah female, French Guiana, courtesy of John Marchant.
Kirby Wolfe reports, "All of the Copiopteryx feed on Sapotaceae, the sapote family, and I reared mine on Chico sapote (Manilkara chicle)."
Copiopteryx jehovah male, Atalaya, Ucayali, Peru,
October 31, 2008, 350m, courtesy of Vladimir Izersky.
Copiopteryx jehovah female copyright Kirby Wolfe
Copiopteryx jehovah female, Pantiacolla Lodge, Manu, Cusco, Peru, September, 550m, courtesy of Peter Bruce-Jones, id by Bill Oehlke.
Copiopteryx jehovah female, Picurayacu, Iquitos, Loreto, Peru,
April 10, 2009, courtesy/copyright of Hubert Mayer.
Early instar larvae are spiny and hatch from eggs after approximately fourteen days of development.Tiny larvae feed on leaf tips from underside veins. Pupation is in early (pre-dawn) morning in subterranean jehovah 5th instar larva copyright Kirby Wolfe. disappear in the sixth/final instar. |
6th instar larva Kirby Wolfe
Manilkara chicle ....... |
Chico Sapote |
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.
The genus name "Copiopteryx" comes from the Greek word "pterygion" for wing.
The species name "jehovah" is for Jehovah or God.