DISTRIBUTION:

Gamelioides denisae (wingspan: males: ; females: 72mm // forewing length: males: mm; females: probably larger) flies in
Peru: Cusco, probably at high elevations.

Peru: Cusco: Vallee de Quillabamba, 21 km col., collected by P. Schmit, 2004-05-10 (Mirror);
Peru: Cusco: Vallee de Quillabamba, 2005-11-15 (Mirror).

The male forewing apex is neither produced nor pointed. It is slightly rounded. The dark, diffuse forewing ocells has a pale orange center. The hindwing has a dark marginal area, but the basal, median and submarginal areas are bright orange.

The pale grey-brown female has a dark brown streak surrounded by crescentric orange with a darker, diffuse grey-brown outline in the forewing ocellus. The hindwing pm line is distinctively orange with a relatively large ocellus almost tangential to it.

Gamelioides denisae male (HT), Peru, courtesy of Stefan Naumann.

FLIGHT TIMES AND PREFERRED FOOD PLANTS:

May and November flights have been recorded. Larval hosts are unknown.

ECLOSION, SCENTING AND MATING:

Gamelioides denisae AT female, Cusco, Peru,
72mm, on my home computer only.

Gamelioides denisae AT female (verso), Cusco, Peru,
72mm, on my home computer only.

EGGS, LARVAE, COCOONS AND PUPAE:

Larvae are probably equipped with urticating spines and probably feed gregariously, especially in the early instars.

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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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.

Gamelioides means Gamelia-like. In Greek mythology "Gamelia" is another name for Hera.

The species name "denisae" is honourific for a woman named Denis or Denisa.

Gamelioides denisae AT female.