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Updated as per Witt Museum Lists Updated as per Global Mirror System of DNA Barcoding Analysis (locations and dates of BOLD submissions), December 2011 Updated as per Entomo-Satsphingia Jarhgang 4 Heft 1 23.03.2011): January 28, 2013 Updated as per personal communication with Jean-Marc Gayman (Carchi, Ecuador, 1900m, December, 2013); December 19, 2013 |
Automeris abdomipichinchensis female, Gualchan, Carchi, Ecuador,
December, 2013, 1900m, courtesy of Jean-Marc Gayman;
id and extensive digital repair of left forewing marginal area by Bill Oehlke.
The specimen to the right, courtesy of Mark Gurney, is from the Tandayapa Bird Lodge.The Lodge is located in northwestern Ecuador near Quito. The identification, by myself, is based on geography, inward turn of dark am line near inner margin, dark concave pm line inwardly lined with silver near the costa, contrasting submarginal band, broad, black undulating pm and submarginal lines of hindwing, silver discal streak and underlining of pupil with silver. |
TAXONOMY:Superfamily: Bombycoidea, Latreille, 1802 |
"Someone to Watch Over Me" |
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