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Updated as per Lemaire's Ceratocampinae 1988, September 26, 2006 Updated as per Entomo Satsphingia Jahrgang 4 Heft 3 03.28.2011; April 2, 2012 |
Giacomellia inversa, Claude Lemaire.
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TAXONOMY:Superfamily: Bombycoidea, Latreille, 1802 |
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Brechlin and Meister, 2011, confirm that inversa is a melanic form of Giacomellia bilineata and not a distinct species.
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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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 "inversa" is indicative of the reversed colouration of the forewing as compared to bilineata.