DIRPHIA OF THE WORLD

The genus Dirphia belongs to the Hemileucini tribe of the Subfamily Hemileucinae in the Saturniidae Family. Larvae have urticating spines.

Dirphia aculea larva on Quercus turneri X pseudoturneri,
courtesy of Bernhard Wenczel

Moths fly in Central and South America.

P indicates an image is available. The first country listed is the specimen type locality.

There are many species listed as Dirphia on various internet sites which properly belong to other genera. Ones that I have encountered are listed below the true Dirphia, and their appropriate genera are indicated.

Listing of Dirphia

N nicholasi Naumann & C. Mielke, 2014 Uruguay: Tacuarembo Department

N arianae Brechlin, Kaech & Meister 2013, Ecuador: Morona Santiago
N carchensis Brechlin, Kaech & Meister 2013, Ecuador: Carchi, Esmeraldas, Pichincha
N somoccidentalis Brechlin, Kaech & Meister 2013, Ecuador: Pichincha, Esmeraldas
N vanschaycki Brechlin & Meister 2013, Peru: Amazonas

P winbrechlini Brechlin & Meister 2011, Peru: Junin
P amazhorca Brechlin & Meister 2011, Peru: Amazonas
P riojhorca Brechlin & Meister 2011, Peru: San Martin
P tolimafurca Brechlin & Meister 2011, Colombia: Tolima
P apeggyae Brechlin, Meister & Kaech 2011, Ecuador: Pichincha
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P pastazana Brechlin, Meister & Kaech 2011, Ecuador: Pastaza
P carimaguensis Brechlin & Meister 2011, Colombia: Meta
P aculecuatoriana Brechlin, Meister & Kaech 2011, Ecuador: Pastaza; Sucumbios; Orellana; Napo
P fabiani Brechlin & Meister 2011, Peru: Junin
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P schmitti Brechlin & Meister 2011, Bolivia: Santa Cruz; Beni
P lapaziana Brechlin & Meister 2011, Bolivia: La Paz; Santa Cruz
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N abhorca Lemaire, 1969, western Colombia, Ecuador
P acidalia Hubner, 1819 Suriname, French Guiana, Peru (E), Bolivia (E), Brazil
stolli Bouvier, 1929, Surninam, is same as acidalia
P aculea Vuillot, 1892 northern Brazil; possibly to eastern Colombia
P albescens Brechlin & Meister, 2008 Peru
P allae Brechlin & Meister 2011, Peru: Ayacucho; Apurimac; Cusco; Puno; Madre de Dios; Ucayali; Junin; Pasco;
P araucariae Jones, 1908 southeastern Brazil
divisa Jordan, 1910, Brazil, is same as araucariae
P avia Stoll, 1780 Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Surinam, French Guiana, Trinidad, Venezuela (probably avibarinasensis from Barinas), Colombia (probably aviluisiana from Antioquia and avichoco from Choco), Ecuador (probably avinapoana), Bolivia (probably aviboliviana), Paraguay (probably avialtoparanensis), Peru (probably allae eastern and aviurica western), and Brazil
Phalaena Bombyx orasia Stoll, 1792, Suriname, is same as avia
triangulum Walker, 1855, Brazil, is same as avia triangulum from southeastern Brazil, now, 2011, has full species status
concolor Walker, 1855, Venezuela, is same as avia
nora Druce, 1897, Panama, is same as avia nora from Chiriqui, Panama, now, 2011, has full species status
P avialtoparanensis Brechlin & Meister 2011, Paraguay: Alto Parana; Paraguari
P avibarinasensis Brechlin & Meister 2011, Venezuela: Barinas
P aviboliviana Brechlin & Meister 2011, Bolivia: La Paz; Chuquisaca; Beni; Tarija; Santa Cruz; Cochabamba;
P avichoco Brechlin & Meister 2011, Colombia: Choco
P aviluisiana Brechlin & Meister 2011, Colombia: Antioquia; possibly Venezuela
P avinapoana Brechlin, Meister & Kaech 2011, Ecuador: Napo; Zamora Chinchipe; Peru: Amazonas; San Martin
P aviurica Brechlin & Meister 2011, Peru: Piura; Tumbes
N avrilae Lemaire, 1980, Venezuela
P barinasensis Barinas Province, Venezuela
P baroma Schaus, 1906 ?, Brazil
glauca Mabilde, 1896, Brazil, is same as baroma
walkeri Bouvier, 1929, Brazil, is a synonym for baroma
walkeri f. fasciata Bouvier, 1930, Brazil, is a synonym for baroma
P brevifurca Strand, 1911, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia
P cadioui Lemaire, 1980, Argentina, Bolivia
P carimaguensis Decaëns T, Bonilla D, Naumann S, 2005 Colombia
P centralis F. Johnson & Michener, 1948, Peru
P centrifurca Naumann, Brosch, & Wenczel, 2005, Peru Pasco
P crassifurca Lemaire, 1971, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela
P curitiba Draudt, 1930 Brazil
P demarmelsi Naumann, Brosch, Wenczel, & Clavijo, 2005, Venezuela
P dentimaculata Schaus, 1921 Brazil; possibly Paraguay
N diasi (Lemaire, 1994) southeastern Brazil
P docquinae Lemaire, 1993 French Guiana; Suriname
P dolosa Bouvier, 1929, southeastern Brazil
N fernandezi Lemaire, 1972, Venezuela
P fornax Druce, 1903 Brazil
Ormiscodes rothschildi Dognin, 1916, Brazil, is same as fornax
P fraterna fraterna R. Felder, 1874 Colombia: Meta, Huila, Caqueta (LRRV) and probably Amazonas and Putamayo; Ecuador: Sucumbios, Orellana, Napo, Morona Santiago and probably Pastaza; Peru: Amazonas (LTR), Huanuco, Cusco, Junin (PBJ) Madre de Dios, probably San Martin, Loreto and Puno; Bolivia: La Paz, Beni; Brazil: Paraiba, Mato Grosso, Rondonia (CB). javarina Butler, 1878, "Rio Javari", is same as fraterna fraterna
callosa Draudt, 1930, Colombia, is same as fraterna fraterna
theobromana Draudt, 1930, Colombia, is same as fraterna fraterna
P fraterna seraphini Bouvier, 1929 French Guiana; elevated to full species status, Brechlin & Meister, 2013
P horca Dognin, 1894 Ecuador, Peru
P horcana Schaus, 1911 Costa Rica; Panama: Chiriqui
P inexspectata Racheli and Racheli, 2005 Peru
P irradians Lemaire, 1972 Venezuela
P lemoulti Bouvier, 1930 French Guiana
P lichyi Lemaire, 1971 Venezuela
P ludmillae Lemaire, 1974, Colombia
P mielkeorum Naumann, Brosch, & Wenczel, 2005, Peru: Madre de Dios
P moderata Bouvier, 1929, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina
avicula Draudt, 1930, is same as moderata
P monticola Zerny, 1923 Brazil, endangered
fallax Bouvier, 1930, Brazil, is same as monticola
P muscosa Schaus, 1898 Brazil
Ormiscodes hortensia Schaus, 1913, Brazil, is same as muscosa
f. sinuosa Bouvier, 1929, Brazil, is same as muscosa
f. colorata Bouvier, 1930, Brazil, is same as muscosa
P napoensis Racheli and Racheli, 2005 Ecuador
P naumanni Peru see Dirphia albescens.
P nora Brechlin & Meister 2013, Panama: Chiriqui
P panamensis panamensis Schaus, 1921 Panama, Colombia, Brazil, Venezuela? to French Guiana
decolor Bouvier, 1929, Brazil, is a synonym for panamensis panamensis
P panamensis fassli Dognin, 1923, eastern slopes of Andes in Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru
N prosperina Lemaire, 1982, Ecuador
P radiata Dognin, 1916 French Guiana, Guyana, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru
P rengei Stefan Naumann, Aare Lindt, and Jaan Viidalepp, 2010 Ecuador: Napo; Zamora-Chinchipe
P riograndensis C. Mielke & A. Moser, 2007 Brazil
P rubricauda Bouvier, 1929, Brazil, Bolivia
N rufescens F. Johnson & Michener, 1948, Brazil
P sombrero Le Cerf, 1934, Brazil
dalcyra Oiticica, 1953, Brazil, is a synonym for sombrero
P somniculosa somniculosa Cramer, 1777 Peru: Piura
Surinam (error), Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador
rochereaui Bouvier, 1929, Colombia, is same as somniculosa somniculosa
P somniculosa eximia Lemaire, 1977 Venezuela
P somniculosa juninensis Lemaire, 1977 Peru; Chapare, Bolivia
P somniculosa confluens Bouvier, 1930 Peru: Puno, Ecuador, Bolivia
P subhorca Dognin, 1901, Ecuador: Imbabura; Colombia, Costa Rica
P tarquinia (Cramer, 1775) Surinam, French Guiana, Guyana, Venezuela, Peru, Brazil
Phalaena Attacus tarquinius Cramer, 1775, Surinam, is same as tarquinia
Echidna tarpejus Hubner, 1811, Venezuela, is same as tarquinia
Hyperdirphia f. bouvieri Schussler, 1934, Venezuela, is same as tarquinia
P theobromana Draudt, 1930 Colombia, is same as fraterna fraterna
P thliptophana thliptophana R. Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874 Amazonas, Ecuador
brunneo-alba [sic] f. saturata Bouvier, 1930, Peru, is same as thliptophana thliptophana
N thliptophana pacifica Lemaire, 1981, Colombia
P triangulum Walker, 1855 southeastern Brazil: Santa Catarina; Rio de Janeiro; probably Sao Paulo, Parana, Minas Gerais.
P ursina Walker, 1855 Bolivia, Argentina
Phricodia jorgenseni Schaus, 1921, Argentina, is same as ursina
melanosoma Niepelt, 1934, Bolivia, is same as ursina

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There are many species listed as Dirphia on various internet sites which properly belong to other genera. Ones that I have encountered are listed below the true Dirphia, and their appropriate genera are indicated.

Cerodirphia
N pachona Draudt, 1929 Colombia Cerodirphia
P speciosa Cramer, 1777 Suriname, Brazil, Venezuela Cerodirphia

Dirphiopsis
P multicolor Walker, 1855 Brazil Dirphiopsis
P pulchricornis Walker, 1855 Venezuela Dirphiopsis

Eudyaria
P zeta Berg, 1885 Argentina Eudyaria

Pseudodirphia
P eumedide Stoll, 1782 Suriname Pseudodirphia
P eumedidoides Vuillot, 1892 Brazil Pseudodirphia
P menander Druce, 1886 Costa Rica, Ecuador Pseudodirphia
P mexicana Bouvier, 1924 Mexico Pseudodirphia
P pallida Walker, 1855 Colombia Pseudodirphia

Unknown

Dirphia male ??, Hato Apure, Guarico, northeastern Venezuela,
November 1, 1992, courtesy of Allen T. Clothier

Dirphia or Periphoba female, unknown???, Amazonas, Brazil,
Cornell University Insect Collection, courtesy of Ryan Saint Laurent.

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