Periga anitae
pur-EE-guhmah-NEE-tay
Naumann, Brosch, & Wenczel, 2005

Periga anitae (female), courtesy of Viktor Suter/Bernhard Wenczel.

DISTRIBUTION:

The Periga anitae moth (forewing length: males: 27-31mm; females: 34-40 ) flies in
central Peru: Pasco and Junin at high elevations (2000-2500m).

Peru: Pasco: Oxapampa, La Suiza, -75.2872, -10.6375, collected by J. Boettger, 2005-01-04 (questionable date; Mirror).

FLIGHT TIMES AND PREFERRED FOOD PLANTS:

Moths are on the wing from April until June, probably as a univoltine species.

Larval hosts are unknown.

ECLOSION, SCENTING AND MATING:

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

Males fly in the very early evening and females are usually observed between 8:00 and 10:00pm.

Periga anitae pair courtesy of Bernhard Wenczel.

EGGS, LARVAE, COCOONS AND PUPAE:

Eggs are deposited in clusters on hostplant foliage.

Periga anitae larvae are highly gregarious and have the urticating spines typical of larvae from the Subfamily Hemileucinae.

Periga anitae third instars, courtesy of Viktor Suter/Bernhard Wenczel.

Larval Food Plants

Listed below are primary food plant(s) and alternate food plants listed in Stephen E. Stone's Foodplants of World Saturniidae and/or from personal communication. 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.

I do not know the source of the genus name "Periga" chosen by Walker in 1855.

The species name "anitae" is honourific for "Anita Brosch, the wife of Ulrich Brosch, in recognition of her neverending sustaining work for the Saturniidae study at Hille-West."

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