DISTRIBUTION:

Hyperchiria orodina (forewing length: males: 25-29mm; females: 34-38mm) flies in
Brazil: Distrito Federal, Goias, Ceara (SB), Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais;
Paraguay: Paraguari (CL), and (Alto Paraguay, Boqueron, Presidente Hayes, Concepcion, San Pedro, Cordillera, Guaira, Caaguazu UD), (Amambay: La Nina (SR)) and probably Asuncion and Central; and
northern Argentina: Tucuman and probably Salta, Santiago del Estero, Formosa and Chaco.

Hyperchiria orodina male, Tiangua, Ceara, Brazil,
March 20, 2018, courtesy of Sylvia Barroso, id by Bill Oehlke.

Hyperchiria orodina male, Tiangua, Ceara, Brazil,
March 20, 2018, courtesy of Sylvia Barroso, id by Bill Oehlke.

The following are either darker versions of orodina, something undescribed or incisa gadouae.

Hyperchiria orodina/incisa gadouae?? male, Tiangua, Ceara, Brazil,
March 20, 2018, courtesy of Sylvia Barroso, very tentative id by Bill Oehlke.

Hyperchiria orodina/incisa gadouae?? male, Tiangua, Ceara, Brazil,
March 20, 2018, courtesy of Sylvia Barroso, very tentative id by Bill Oehlke.

This is most likely a cerrado/savanna species.

Hyperchiria orodina male, Paraguay, courtesy of Eric van Schayck.

Hyperchiria orodina male, Paraguay, courtesy of Eric van Schayck.

The specimens depicted on this page all lack a median band on the forewing and lack the dark hindwing am band, more typical of A. incisa bicolor, which also tends to have a slight sprinkling of black dots on the wing veins. The forewings are only slightly if at all produced at the apex.

Hyperchiria orodina Paraguay, courtesy of Ulf Drechsel

Hyperchiria orodina Paraguay, courtesy of Ulf Drechsel

Hyperchiria orodina, Capim Branco, Minas Gerais, Brazil,
July 28, 2016, courtesy of Patricia De Mendonca Goncalves,
tentative id by Bill Oehlke

Hyperchiria orodina, Capim Branco, Minas Gerais, Brazil,
July 14, 2016, courtesy of Patricia De Mendonca Goncalves,
tentative id by Bill Oehlke

FLIGHT TIMES AND PREFERRED FOOD PLANTS:

Moths are on the wing in December-January-February (SR) -March-April and October, suggesting three broods annually.

Larvae of Hyperchiria orodina eat Sapindaceae, Quamoclit setosa.

Hyperchiria orodina (female), Paraguay, courtesy of Eric van Schayck.

Hyperchiria orodina female, Paraguay,
courtesy of Eric van Schayck.

ECLOSION, SCENTING AND MATING:

Males use well-developed antennae to seek out females which scent at night.

Hyperchiria orodina male, copyright Kirby Wolfe,
id by Bill Oehlke

EGGS, LARVAE, COCOONS AND PUPAE: Eggs are laid in clusters and larvae are gregarious and have urticating spines. Image courtesy of Bernhard Wenczel.

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.

Quamoclit setosa..... Sapindaceae

Bindweed Sapindaceae

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