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Updated as per Lemaire's Hemileucinae 2002, March 2008 Updated as per personal communication with Carlos Mielke (Parana), April 2008 Updated as per personal communication with Ryan Saint-Laurent; April 13, 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 ZOOLOGIA LEPIDÓPTEROS DE IMPORTÂNCIA MÉDICA OCORRENTES NO RIO GRANDE DO SUL. III. SATURNIIDAE – HEMILEUCINAE (flight months; foodplants; RGDS); Alexandre Specht; Elio Corseuil; Aline Carraro Formentini Updated as per personal communication with Joao Amarildo Ranguetti (Massaranduba, Santa Catarina, Brazil, July); March 19, 2016 |
My observation is that the forewing is not a good match from the specimen depicted as baroma in Lemaire's Hemileucinae, 2002. Lemaire's image shows a definite lighter marginal area, in noticeable contrast to the submarginal area, instead of the almost uniform colouration of the CUIC specimen that I digitally repaired. I am not sure that the forewings really belong to this specimen??
I would expect the post median of the forewings to be very similar to those depicted on the females below. The dark ovals on the forewings also seem less prominent in Lemaire's image of a male baroma.
Bill Oehlke
Dirphia baroma male, Massaranduba, Santa Catarina, Brazil,
March 19, 2016, courtesy of Joao Amarildo Ranguetti, id by Bill Oehlke.
TAXONOMY:Superfamily: Bombycoidea, Latreille, 1802 |
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Possibly it also flies in Paraguay: Alto Parana??
Ezequiel Osvaldo Núñez Bustos sent me a paper in August 2015 which includes Dirphia baroma in northeastern Argentina: Misiones: Campo viera.
In 2014 Stephan Naumann and Carlos G. C. Mielke indicate Dirphia glauca is actually a senior synonym of Dirphia baroma.
Males use highly developed antennae to locate females by tracking their airbourne pheromone plumes.I am pretty sure the following image is of a female Dirphia baroma, confirming its presence in Santa Catarina, Brazil.
Dirphia baroma female, Massaranduba, Santa Catarina, Brazil,
Dirphia baroma female, Porto Alegro, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, |
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