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Updated as per
Heppner's Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera Checklist: Part 4B, 1996, December 1, 2005
Lemaire's Ceratocampinae, December 1, 2005 |
Citheronia brissotii meridionalis pair courtesy of T. Decaëns
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TAXONOMY:Superfamily: Bombycoidea, Latreille, 1802 |
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Reinhard Foerster has sent a larval image that is either nominate brissottii or subspecies meridionalis from Misiones Province, Argentina.
This subspecies brissottii meridionalis is smaller than the nominate form, with reduced yellow spotting and more orange in the hindwings.
Citheronia brissotii meridionalis male, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina,
February 16, 2009, courtesy of Gabriela F. Ruellan.
Citheronia brissotii meridionalis female, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina,
February 16, 2009, courtesy of Gabriela F. Ruellan.
Citheronia brissotii meridionalis in copula, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina,
February 17, 2009, courtesy of Gabriela F. Ruellan.
Larvae feed on Prunus persica, and they have been reared on Ligustrum japonicum in captivity.
Females call in the males with an airbourne pheromone and most activity occurs in the early morning hours from 1:00 to 3:00 am.
Citheronia brissottii meridionalis fifth instar, Misiones, Argentina,
courtesy of Reinhard Foerster
Citheronia brissotii meridionalis fifth instar, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina,
December 29, 2008, courtesy of Gabriela F. Ruellan.
Citheronia brissotii meridionalis fifth instar, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina,
february 2, 2009, courtesy of Gabriela F. Ruellan.
Citheronia brissotii meridionalis by Claude Lemaire,
on my home computer only.
Ligustrum japonicum ....... |
Japanese privet |
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The species name "brissottii" is honourific for a man named
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The subspecies name "meridionalis" perhaps?? indicates 'central'
Argentina.
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