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Updated as per personal communication with Rudolf Lampe, December, 2006 |
Giacomelia escobari, San Lorenzo*, Central Department, Paraguay,
August 2009, courtesy of
Paul Smith.
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TAXONOMY:Superfamily: Bombycoidea, Latreille, 1802 |
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The weak forewing bands are brown and much less prominent on this species, compared to bilineata and vanschaycki, but there is a much greater speckling of grey dots on the forewings.
Larval hosts are unknown.
Larvae pupate underground in small chambers.
Care of larvae and pupae should be as for any Neotropical species.
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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 honourific 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 "escobari" is honourific for Escobar.