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Updated as per Lemaire's Ceratocampinae 1988, September 26, 2006 Updated as per personal communication with Ezequiel Osvaldo Nunez Bustos (Argentina: Formosa Province (Rìo Pilcomayo National Park); July 4, 2011 Updated as per personal conmmunication with Paul Smith, San Lorenzo, Paraguay, August; April 2, 2012 Updated as per Entomo Satsphingia Jahrgang 4 Heft 3 23.08.2011; April 2, 2011 |
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Comments, suggestions and/or additional information are welcomed by Bill.
TAXONOMY:Superfamily: Bombycoidea, Latreille, 1802 |
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Lemaire, Ceratocampinae, 1987, only lists Argentina and Bolivia. It is interesting that the image from Paraguay shows no spotting near the anal angle of the forewings.
Brechlin and Meister, 2011, differentiated between the species with no speckling on the forewings and an all white hindwing (G. bilineata),
and the somewhat similar new species G. vanschaycki, which has red-brown speckling on the forewings and a reddish-brown hindwing.
I have moved the G. vanschaycki images previously depicted on this page to their own file.
Brechlin and Meister also indicate that Giacomellia inversa is just a melanic form of G. bilineata.
Giacomellia bilineata male, Paraguay,
courtesy of Eric van Schayck.
Larvae feed upon Prosopis nigra.
Giacomellia bilineata male, San Lorenzo, Paraguay,
August, 2009, courtesy of Paul Smith.
Larvae pupate underground in small chambers.
Care of larvae and pupae should be as for any Neotropical species.
Prosopis nigra...... |
Acacia of Catherine/Mesquite |
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The pronunciation of scientific names is
troublesome for many. The "suggestion" at the top of the page is
merely a suggestion. It is based on commonly
accepted English pronunciation of Greek names and/or some
fairly well accepted "rules" for latinized scientific names.
The suggested pronunciations, on this page and on other pages,
are primarily put forward to assist those who hear with internal
ears as they read.
There are many collectors from different countries whose
intonations and accents would be different.
Some of the early describers/namers chose genus
and species names indicating some character of the insect, but more
often, they simply chose names from Greek or Roman mythology or
history. Those species names which end in "ensis" indicate a
specimen locale, and those which end in "i", pronounced "eye", honour
a contempory friend/collector/etc.
Ezequiel Osvaldo Nunez Bustos writes, "The name of the genus is honouorific for an Italian entomologist that lived many years in La Rioja Province.
His name was Eugenio Giacomelli, and he described some new species in the areas of La Rioja and Cordoba."
The species name "bilineata" is indicative of the two dark lines on
the forewing.