Automeris midenapoensis
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 Jahrgang 4 Heft 1 23.03.2011; June 15, 2012
Updated as per personal communication with Terry Stoddard (Rio Tiputini, Orellana, Ecuador, October 2001, 300m): January 25, 2013

Automeris midenapoensis
Brechlin & Meister 2011

Automeris midenapoensis male, (76mm), Rio Tiputini, Orellana, Ecuador,
October, 2001, 300m, courtesy of Terry Stoddard, id by Bill Oehlke.

TAXONOMY:

Superfamily: Bombycoidea, Latreille, 1802
Family: Saturniidae, Boisduval, [1837] 1834
Subfamily: Hemileucinae, Grote & Robinson, 1866
Tribe: Hemileucini, Grote & Robinson, 1866
Genus: Automeris, Hubner, [1819]

MIDI MUSIC

"Someone to Watch Over Me"
copyright C. Odenkirk
ON.OFF
<bgsound src="watch.mid" LOOP=FOREVER>

DISTRIBUTION:

Automeris midenapoensis (wingspan: males: 71-76mm; females: mm) flies in
Ecuador: Napo: Rio Hollin, 2008-01-05; Orellana: Rio Tiputini, 300m, October, 2001 (TS).

Automeris midenapoensis male, (71mm), Rio Tiputini, Orellana, Ecuador,
October, 2001, 300m, courtesy of Terry Stoddard, id by Bill Oehlke.

FLIGHT TIMES AND PREFERRED FOOD PLANTS:

The specimen type was taken on January 5, 2008.

Terry Stoddard reports an October flight in Orellana, Ecuador.

Automeris midenapoensis male, (76mm), Rio Tiputini, Orellana, Ecuador,
October, 2001, 300m, courtesy of Terry Stoddard, id by Bill Oehlke.

Automeris midenapoensis?? male, (74mm), Rio Tiputini, Orellana, Ecuador,
November, 2003, 300m, courtesy of Terry Stoddard, id by Bill Oehlke.

Apparently the size of the hindwing ocellus is quite variable??

Automeris midenapoensis female, (82mm), Rio Tiputini, Orellana, Ecuador,
October, 2001, 300m, courtesy of Terry Stoddard, id by Bill Oehlke.

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 midenapoensis male, 75mm, Napo, Ecuador,
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