Automeris zozimanaguana
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 CSIRO PUBLISHING: Invertebrate Systematics, 2012, 26, 478–505 http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/IS12038:
"What happens to the traditional taxonomy when a wellknown tropical saturniid moth fauna is DNA barcoded?; Dan Janzen, et.al.;
Received 8 May 2012, accepted 22 September 2012, published online 19 December 2012; April 23, 2013
Updated as per personal communication with Jahrgang 4 Heft 1 23.03.2011; February 17, 2014

Automeris zozimanaguana
Brechlin & Meister 2011

Automeris zozimanaguana HT male, Las Delicias, Managua, Nicaragua,
63mm, May 9, 2007, 865m, on my home computer only.

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

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DISTRIBUTION:

Automeris zozimanaguana (wingspan: males: 63mm; females: 71mm // forewing length: males: 30-32mm; females: ) flies in
Nicaragua: Managua: El Delicias, collected by P. Schmit, 2007-05-09
Nicaragua: Managua : Las Delicias, El Crucero, collected by P. Schmit, 2007-08-05; and
Costa Rica: Puntarenas: Coto Brus, Agua Bueno, 2002-04-14.

This dry forest species is very similar to rain forest species Automeris zozine. DNA barcoding might be required to distinguish between them when habitat is not known.

FLIGHT TIMES AND PREFERRED FOOD PLANTS:

Specimens have been taken in Costa Rica in April. In Nicaragua specimens have been taken in May and August. Dan Janzen indicates they are consistently distinct as per habitat.

ECLOSION, SCENTING AND MATING:

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

Automeris zozimanaguana AT female, Managua, Nicaragua,
71mm, on my home computer only.

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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