GRAMMOPELTA OF THE WORLD

GRAMMOPELTA OF THE WORLD

Grammopelta lineata moth courtesy of Thibaud Decaens.

TAXONOMY:

Superfamily: Bombycoidea, Latreille, 1802
Family; Saturniidae, Boisduval, [1837] 1834
Subfamily: Arsenurinae, Jordan 1922
Tribe: Arsenurini, Jordan, 1922
Genus: Grammopelta W. Rothschild, 1907

The Arsenurini are a primitive tribe found in tropical South and Central America.

Anuropteryx Bouvier, 1928, is a synonym of Grammopelta.

P indicates a photograph is available. The first country listed is the type locality.

Listing of Grammopelta:

P lineata (Schaus, 1906), French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, Brazil and northern Bolivia, probably Suriname and probably Guyana.

The following are synonymous with lineata:

cervina, W. Rothschild, 1907, Peru
convergens, (Bouvier, 1928), Colombia
f. niepelti, Draudt, 1930, Colombia

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