DISTRIBUTION:

Hylesia pauper (wingspan: males: 38-44mm; females: probably larger) flies in
Peru: Loreto, Puno;
Ecuador: Napo, Morona-Santiago and probably Pastaza;
Venezuela: Bolivar;
French Guiana: Cayenne, Regina, Coralie, Saint-Jean-du-Maroni;
and Brazil: Para.

This species has been taken at elevations from 20m to 850m.

The thorax and abdomen are brown, with yellowish hairs on the abdomen. The narrow forewing is apically produced with a brownish-grey ground colour. The am line is indistinct. The distinct, brown pm line is straight to slightly convex and is outwardly bordered in white. The cell mark is dark brown and the rest of the cell on the body side is light, almost white. The submarginal band shows a greyish white suffusion along its outward lower half.

FLIGHT TIMES AND PREFERRED FOOD PLANTS:

Larval hosts are unknown.

This species probably broods continuously on a three month cycle. Peak flight seems to be January-February.

Hylesia pauper female, Claude Lemaire, on my home computer only

ECLOSION, SCENTING AND MATING:

Females extend a scent gland from the tip of the abdomen, and the night-flying males pickup and track the airbourne pheromone plume with their well-developed antennae.

EGGS, LARVAE, COCOONS AND PUPAE:

Eggs are deposited in clusters on hostplant foliage.

Hylesia pauper larvae are highly gregarious and have the urticating spines typical of larvae from the Subfamily Hemileucinae.

Larval Food Plants

Listed below are primary food plant(s) and alternate food plants listed in Stephen E. Stone's Foodplants of World Saturniidae. 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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Hylesia pauper, BOLD Systems,
on my home computer only.