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Updated as per Entomo Satsphingia Jahrgang 6 Heft 2 21.02.2013; April 17, 2013 |
TAXONOMY:Superfamily: Bombycoidea, Latreille, 1802 |
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Periga fuscbahiana larvae are highly gregarious and have the urticating spines typical of larvae from the Subfamily Hemileucinae.
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The pronunciation of scientific names is troublesome for many. The "suggestion" at the top of the page is merely a suggestion. It is based on
commonly accepted English pronunciation of Greek names and/or some fairly well accepted "rules" for latinized scientific names.
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 "fuscbahiana" is indicative of a close relationship to P. fusca, and a specimen type locale in Bahia, Brazil.
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