HYPERCHIRIA OF THE WORLD
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Updated as per Lemaire's Hemileucinae 2002, November 17, 2005
Updated as per personal communication with Carlos Mielke (added schmiti), April 9, 2007
Updated as per Museum WITT Munchen internet publication, Brechlin and Meister, January 11, 2011
Updated as per Global Mirror System of DNA Barcoding Analysis (locations and dates of BOLD submissions), January 2012
Updated as per Entomo-Satsphingia Jahrgang 4, Heft 4, 21.10.2011 and Jahrgang 3, Heft 5, 18.11.2010; November 28, 2012
Updated as per Entomo-Satsphingia Jahrgang 5 Heft 1 11.04.2012; November 13, 2013
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HYPERCHIRIA OF THE WORLD
Hyperchiria orodina courtesy of Leroy Simon
HYPERCHIRIA HUBNER, [1819]
The genus Hyperchiria belongs to the Subfamily
Hemileucinae in the Saturniidae Family. These medium sized moths
all have a hindwing iris that is either red, orange or black.
The forewing apex is strongly produced and truncated in all species
except H. orodina.
H. orodina also lacks a median band.
All adults of this genus have a dark (black) longitudinal middorsal
striga or stripe on the thorax. The abdomen is yellow and broadly ringed
with black dorsally except in H. plicata, which is without the
rings.
Larvae have urticating spines.
Hyperchiria incisa
larva copyright Kirby Wolfe.
P indicates an image is
available. The first country listed is the specimen type locality.
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Please note: The advent of DNA barcoding has resulted in many new descriptions
(several new species, 2010; even more 2011-2013). In many cases the "new" species
are quite similar to existing species. Do not be surprised if even more refined testing or revisions of thresholds of difference in the future results in some
synonymies or even more species/subspecies. Subsequent rearing may or may not indicate differences in larval appearance.
It will be interesting to see how this all pans out.
Listing of Hyperchiria
Brechlin & Meister 2010-2011 now divide Hyperchiria into four groups:
Nausica Group:
P azteca (Draudt, 1929) Mexico,
possibly Belize and possibly western Guatemala
P nausica (Cramer, 1779) Suriname,
French Guiana, possibly Guyana, possibly northern Brazil
N carabobensis Brechlin & Meister 2010
Venezuela: Carabobo
P meridaensis Brechlin & Meister 2010
Venezuela: Merida
P nausioccidentalis Brechlin & Meister 2010
eastern Ecuador, eastern Peru, northwestern Bolivia
N columbiana Brechlin & Meister 2010
Colombia: Tolima
N volcana Brechlin, Kach & Meister 2011
northwestern Ecuador: Pichincha,; Manabi
P sanjuensis Brechlin & Meister 2010
Nicaragua: San Juan
N rincon Brechlin & Meister 2012
Costa Rica: Guanacaste: Volcan Rincon
P jinotegaensis Brechlin & Meister 2010
Nicaragua: Jinotega
P guatemalensis Brechlin & Meister 2010
Guatemala: Alta Verapaz; Honduras
Plicata Group:
P plicata (Herrich-Schaeffer, [1855]) southeastern
Brazil
P acuta (Conte, 1906) northeasternPeru,
Ecuador,
Colombia ??,
Bolivia ??
Automeris flavus Conte, 1906, Peru, is a synonym for acuta
P acutapex Brechlin & Meister 2010
Bolivia: La Paz
P australoacuta Brechlin & Meister 2010
central Peru,
northern Bolivia
N extremapex Brechlin & Meister 2010
Bolivia: La Paz
P interacuta Brechlin & Meister 2011
central Peru: Junin
P parallela Brechlin, Kach & Meister 2011
northwestern Ecuador: Carchi; Pichincha
N parda Brechlin, Kach & Meister 2011
Ecuador: Tungurahua
Incisa Group:
P incisa incisa Walker, 1855 southeastern
Brazil, northeastern
Argentina
Io orodes Boisduval, 1875, Brazil, is a synonym for incisa incisa
N bahisa Brechlin & Meister 2012
Brazil: Bahia
P bicolor (Bouvier, 1930)
Paraguay, Bolivia
P gadouae Lemaire, 1967
Venezuela,
Peru,
Bolivia,
Brazil
P cuscoincisoides Brechlin & Meister 2010
Peru: Cusco
N incisoides Brechlin & Meister 2010
Brazil: Ceara
P misionincisoides Brechlin & Meister 2010
Argentina: Misiones;
Paraguay
P orodina (Schaus, 1900)
Paraguay,
Brazil,
Argentina
P schmiti Meister & Knorke, 2004
Argentina
Aniris Group:
P aniris (Jordan, 1910)
Guyana,
French Guiana;
? Surinam
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