Automeris abdomipichinchensis
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
Brechlin & Meister 2011

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
Family: Saturniidae, Boisduval, [1837] 1834
Subfamily: Hemileucinae, Grote & Robinson, 1866
Tribe: Hemileucini, Grote & Robinson, 1866
Genus: Automeris, Hubner, [1819]

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DISTRIBUTION:

Automeris abdomipichinchensis (wingspan: males: mm; females: mm) flies in
western Ecuador: Pichincha: Lloa-Mindo, collected by Horst Kach, 2007-05-19;
Ecuador: Pichincha: Lloa-Mindo, -2.56, -78.46, Horst Kaech, 2006-06-01;
Imbabura; Carchi (JMG).

FLIGHT TIMES AND PREFERRED FOOD PLANTS:

Specimens have been taken in May-June.

ECLOSION, SCENTING AND MATING:

Males use their more highly developed antennae to seek out females who release an airbourne pheromone into the night sky.

EGGS, LARVAE, COCOONS AND PUPAE:

Eggs are deposited in clusters of 6-40+ on hostplant twigs. Larvae have urticating spines and are gregarious, especially in the early instars.

Larval Food Plants


It is hoped that this alphabetical listing followed by the common name of the foodplant will prove useful. The list is not exhaustive. Experimenting with closely related foodplants is worthwhile.

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