COPIOPTERYX OF THE WORLD

Copiopteryx semiramis male copyright Kirby Wolfe

COPIOPTERYX DUNCAN, 1841

The genus Copiopteryx belongs in the Tribe Arsenurini in the Subfamily Arsenurinae, Family Saturniidae. These moths all fly in Central and South America.

Larvae are adorned with elongated thoracic and anal scoli in the first five instars. The scoli are greatly reduced or non-existent in the fnal sixth instar.

Kirby Wolfe reports, "All of the Copiopteryx feed on Sapotaceae, the sapote family, and I reared mine (jehovah and semiramis) on Chico Sapote (Manilkara chicle)."

Copiopteryx semiramis montei sixth instar, Mato Grosso, Brazil, courtesy of Eurides Furtado

Listing of Copiopteryx:

P derceto (Maassen, 1872) southeastern Brazil
P jehovah (Strecker, 1874) Brazil, Venezuela, French Guiana, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and probably Guyana and Suriname
f. adaheli (Draudt, 1930), French Guiana, synonym for jehovah
P semiramis semiramis (Cramer, 1775) Surinam, Venezuela, Guyana, French Guiana, Brazil, Colombia, Peru
f. igoryi (Gagarin, 1934), Brazil, synonym for semiramis semiramis
P semiramis andensis (Lemaire, 1974) Venezuela, Panama, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Colombia
P semiramis banghaasi Draudt, 1930 Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Mexico, Belize
P semiramis gadouorum Lemaire, 1971 Venezuela
P semiramis montei Gagarin, 1934, central Brazil
travassosi Brazil, synonym for semiramis montei
P semiramis phoenix (Deyrolle, 1869) Brazil
P semiramis steindachneri Fassl, 1917 Bolivia
P sonthonnaxi E. Andre, 1905 southeastern Brazil, eastern Paraguay
phippsi (Schaus, 1932), Brazil, synonym for sonthonnaxi
P virgo Zikan, 1929 Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil, Bolivia
biedermanni (Kotzsch, 1930), Paraguay, synonym for virgo

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