Automeris jucundoides
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Updated as per Lemaire's Hemileucinae 2002, February 5, 2007
Updated as per French Guiana Systematique (Sinnamary), March 2008
Updated as per personal communication with Frederic Beneluz (image of female); May 16, 2011
Updated as per personal communication with Alex Cahurel (Montsinnery, French Guiana, October); February 4, 2013
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Automeris jucundoides
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Schaus, 1906
Automeris jucundoides male, 92mm, Montsinnery, French Guiana,
October 2, 2003, courtesy of Alex Cahurel
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 jucundoides
(wingspan: males: 62-76mm; females: 100mm) flies in
French Guiana: Cayenne, Roura,
Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, Sinnamary.
A. jucundoides may only be an extreme variation of
A. cinctistrigata, darker in colour with some black in the
forewing cell.
FLIGHT TIMES AND PREFERRED FOOD PLANTS:
Specimens have
been taken in February, May and July-August and October.
Larval hosts are unknown.
Automeris jucundoides female, French Guiana,
courtesy of Frederic Beneluz.
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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Automeris jucundoides male, Sinnamary, French Guiana,
Jean Paul Passelecq,
October, on my home
computer only, photo copyright Rene Lahousse.
Automeris jucundoides male, Sinnamary, French Guiana,
Jean Paul Passelecq,
October, on my home
computer only, photo copyright Rene Lahousse.