Pseudautomeris hubneri
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Updated as per Lemaire's Hemileucinae 2002, February, 2008
Updated as per personal communication with Carlos Mielke (Parana), April 2008
Updated as per personal communication with Enio Branco (Votorantim, Sao Paulo, Brazil), August 1, 2016
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Pseudautomeris hubneri
(Boisduval, 1875)
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Pseudautomeris hubneri male, Brazil,
courtesy of Eric van Schayck.
This site has been created by Bill Oehlke at oehlkew@islandtelecom.com
Comments, suggestions and/or additional information are welcomed by Bill.
| TAXONOMY:
Superfamily: Bombycoidea, Latreille, 1802
Family: Saturniidae, Boisduval, [1837] 1834
Subfamily: Hemileucinae, Grote & Robinson, 1866
Tribe: Hemileucini, Grote & Robinson, 1866
Genus: Pseudautomeris, Lemaire, 1967
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DISTRIBUTION:
Pseudautomeris hubneri (wingspan: males: 69-98mm; females: 75-115mm) flies in
southeastern Brazil:
Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul, Parana (CM); and in
northeastern Argentina: Misiones.
Pseudautomeris hubneri male, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil,
on my home computer only.
The abdomen is dorsally black. The forewing is elongate, but not apically produced, and the outer margin is straight.
Ground colour is variable, ranging from beige, yellow-brown, orange-brown to blackish-brown.
The antemedial line is strongly indented on the cubitus, coming to a point. The slightly preapical, slightly concave postmedian line, interrupted with yellow-white
dots along veins, almost meets antemedian line along the inner margin.
Pseudautomeris hubneri female, Sao Paulo, Brazil,
on my home computer only.
Pseudautomeris hubneri female, Votorantim, Sao Paulo, Brazil,
August 1, 2016, courtesy of Enio Branco.
Pseudautomeris hubneri female, Votorantim, Sao Paulo, Brazil,
August 1, 2016, courtesy of Enio Branco.
The female from Votarantim does not seem a perfect match for Lemaire's image of the hubneri female, but it does appear to have the black ringed abdomen, a character
of hubneri.
FLIGHT TIMES AND PREFERRED FOOD PLANTS:
This moth likely broods continuously with records of specimens on the wing from May
until October. Enio Branco indicates an early August flight in Sao Paulo.
Larval hosts include Crotalaria and Senna corymbosa.
ECLOSION, SCENTING AND MATING:
Females extend a scent gland from the tip of the abdomen to call in the night-flying males.
Most male activity occurs in the two hours before midnight.
EGGS, LARVAE, COCOONS AND PUPAE:
Pseudautomeris hubneri
larvae are similar to Automeris larvae, being gregarious and having urticating spines.
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.
Crotalaria
Senna corymbosa......
| Rattlebox/Rattleweed
autumn cassia/buttercup tree/
golden senna/scambled eggs/flowery senna
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Pseudautomeris hubneri male, more likely brasiliensis, on my home computer only