DISTRIBUTION:

Oxytenis mirabilis (wingspan: males: 68-75mm; females: ??mm, probably larger) flies in
Guyana;
Suriname: Brokopondo and
French Guiana: Cayenne, Cacao, Roura, Kaw: Rd 6 (RM).

Description below might be for naemia.

"Body and wings clay-colour to tawny-ochraceous; a brown line (often with a pale border on basal side) from costal margin of forewing close to apex to abdominal margin of hindwing, which it reaches at two-fifths. On fore-wing a small grey spot at upper cell-angle and a black tuft at lower angle, on disc usually some diffuse dark brown clouds, sometimes the greater part of the wing shaded with dark brown; termen lobate in middle, at R', and denticulate at the other veins; parallel with the oblique line and placed close to it on the distal side a very thin blackish line outlined in white on the outer side, in the last loop of this line three blackish dots. Hindwing more or less shaded with white on disc, this scaling usually concentrated in diffuse blotches, central area often with pink flush, in middle a thin brown line incurved from costal margin to R' and then three times deeply angulate, a variable number of small blackish brown submarginal spots; termen entire; anal angle not enlarged as a lobe.

"Underside warmer brown than upper, much irrorated with blackish brown, base paler. On forewing a black-brown submarginal line more or less bordered with white on the outer side, termen dark brown. Hindwing with a nearly straight row of blackish brown spots, which are diffuse, luniform or anguliform, and more or less shaded with white, the costal spot conspicuously white, the row about halfway between cell and termen in centre of wing, terminal area shaded with white posteriorly." NZ

In some taxonomies, the Oxytenidae are treated as a distinct family rather than as a subfamily of Saturniidae.

FLIGHT TIMES AND PREFERRED FOOD PLANTS:

There are probably at least three generations of the Oxytenis mirabilis moth. This moth probably broods continuously. FGS reports flights in February and October in French Guiana. If my ids of the specimen images sent by Roy Morris are correct, this species also slies in French Guiana in September.

Oxytenis mirabilis male, Amazone Nature Lodge, Kaw Rd6, French Guiana,
73mm, September 2018, courtesy of Roy Morris, tentative id by Bill Oehlke.

Larvae possibly feed on Alibertia edulis, Randia armata and Posoqueria latifolia.

I am not at all sure of the identification of the following moth.

Oxytenis mirabilis very questionable, Shima, Junin, Peru,
June 12, 2010, 700m, courtesy of Peter Bruce-Jones,
tentative id by Bill Oehlke.

ECLOSION, SCENTING AND MATING:

Males use their antennae to seek out females which scent at night. Activity at lights, with both species being attracted, usually begins shortly before midnight and continues until 2:30 am.

Oxytenis mirabilis male, Amazone Nature Lodge, Kaw Rd6, French Guiana,
75mm, September 2018, courtesy of Roy Morris, tentative id by Bill Oehlke.

EGGS, LARVAE, COCOONS AND PUPAE: