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Lepidoptera: Saturniidae) SHILAP Revista De Lepidopterología, Vol

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Racheli, L.; Racheli, T. A provisional list of the Saturniids of Oliva (Muyo area, Department of Amazonas, ) with notes on an undetermined female of Hübner, [1819] (: ) SHILAP Revista de Lepidopterología, vol. 33, núm. 130, junio, 2005, pp. 231-234 Sociedad Hispano-Luso-Americana de Lepidopterología Madrid, España

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A provisional list of the Saturniids of Oliva (Muyo area, Department of Amazonas, Peru) with notes on an undetermined female of Automeris Hübner, [1819] (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae) L. Racheli & T. Racheli

Abstract

A preliminary list of 45 of Saturniidae recorded at Oliva (Muyo area, Department of Amazonas, Peru) is given. Although the number of species will increase through further investigations in this area, the present list confirms that the fauna of this pre-Andean site is mostly characterized by typical Amazonian species. The majority of the species found at Oliva have been recorded for analogous localities in eastern and in eastern Peru. Furthermore, an undetermined female of Automeris from SE Peru, which possibly refers to Automeris rostralis Le- maire, 2002, is figured. KEY WORDS: Lepidoptera, Saturniidae, list, undetermined female, Automeris rostralis, Oliva, Peru.

Una lista provisional de los Satúrnidos de Oliva (Muyo, Departamento de Amazonas, Perú), con notas sobre una indeterminada hembra de Automeris Hübner, [1819] (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae)

Resumen

Se da una lista preliminar de 45 especies de Saturniidae registrada de Oliva (Muyo área, Departamento de Amazonas, Perú). Aunque el número de especies aumentará con adicionales investigaciones en este área, la presente lista confirma que la fauna de este área preandina, está caracterizada por especies típicamente amazónicas. La mayo- ría de las especies encontradas en Oliva han sido registradas con localidades análogas en Ecuador y Perú oriental. Además, se representa una indeterminada hembra Automeris del sureste del Perú, que muy posiblemente se refiera a Automeris rostralis Lemaire, 2002. PALABRAS CLAVE: Lepidoptera, Saturniidae, lista, hembra indeterminada, Automeris rostralis. Oliva, Perú.

Introduction Our knowledge on the distribution of the Saturniidae in Peru are included in the monographs and revisions of the Neotropical Saturniidae by LEMAIRE (1978, 1980b, 1988, 2002). Additional records are given in some faunistical studies by BRYK (1953), LEMAIRE (1980a) and RACHELI & CALLE- GARI (1996, 1997). LAMAS (1989, 1997) arranged two lists of Saturniidae from Tambopata and Cor- dillera del Cóndor areas in southern and extreme northern Peru, respectively. More recently, a further list on Peruvian Saturniidae was compiled by GRADOS (1999) for the species recorded at a site in the Tumbes department. The misleading and unuseful book by IZERSKY (1999) is here not considered as a contribution to the scientific knowledge. No complete checklist of the species recorded for this country has been published, and the total number of 272 species (according to LAMAS in GRADOS, 1999) known to occur in Peru is an underestimation.

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In this paper, a provisional list of 45 species of Saturniidae from Oliva, Muyo area, 480-650 m, De- partment of Amazonas, northern Peru is given. All the specimens were collected during May-June 1999. Furthermore, a brief note on an undetermined female of Automeris from SE Peru is given. This fe- male could be the hitherto unknown female of Automeris rostralis recently described by LEMAIRE (2002).

Provisional list and notes on the Saturniidae recorded at Oliva, Muyo area

Oxyteninae

Three species of Oxyteninae have been found to occur in this area. They are Oxytenis modestia (Cramer, 1780), Oxytenis naemia Druce, 1906 and Oxytenis leda Druce, 1906. All these species were known to occur in eastern Peru.

Arsenurinae

A total of ten species of Arsenurinae have been recorded for this area, albopicta Jordan, 1922, Arsenura batesii batesii (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874) Dysdaemonia boreas (Cramer, 1775), Tita- ea tamerlan amazonensis Lemaire, 1980, lemoulti (Schaus, 1905), Titaea timur (Fassl, 1915), hippodamia hippodamia (Cramer, 1777), semiramis semiramis (Cramer, 1775), Copiopteryx jehovah (Strecker, 1874) and Loxolomia johnsoni Schaus, 1932. Although the majority of the species present in this area are common species, the lack of records for further common species such as (Cramer, 1779) or Arsenura ciocolatina Draudt, 1930 suggest that the number of Arsenurinae will increase following further investigations. All the recorded species are examples of typical Amazonian species with also few euryzonal species. However, all of them have been listed also for the Loreto Department (Racheli & Callegari, 1996). On the basis of the available peruvian records, both Copiopteryx and Loxolomia species seem to be more widespread and abundat than in Ecuador (see Lemaire, 1980; Lamas, 1989; Racheli & Callegari, 1996).

Ceratocampinae

Fourteen species of are present in this area: imperialis cacicus (Boisduval, 1868), Eacles penelope (Cramer, 1775), Eacles barnesi Schaus, 1905, hamifera hamifera Rothschild, 1907, Citheronia aroa Schaus, 1896, Citheronia phoronea (Cramer, 1779), polybia (Stoll, 1781), Othorene hodeva (Druce, 1904), (Schaus, 1905), Syssp- hinx molina (Cramer, 1780), subangulata (Herrich-Schäffer, [1855]), Adeloneivaia acuta (Schaus, 1896), Adeloneivaia jason (Boisduval, 1872) and Adelowalkeria plateada (Schaus, 1905). The great part of the species examined from this locality are well known and common species. Only the re- cords for two species can be noteworthy, namely those of Schausiella polybia (Stoll, 1781) and Adelo- walkeria plateada (Schaus, 1905).

Hemileucinae

The counts fourteen species for this site but this list must be obviously viewed as a provisional example. It is an underestimation of Hemileucinae fauna possibly present in this area. Many common species will probably be added when further studies will be made. A comparison with Saturniid faunas recorded from other similar sites such as Tambopata (Peru) or Misahualli (Ecuador) (see LAMAS, 1989 and RACHELI & RACHELI, 1998) can help to understand that the species listed below are a derisive example. At present, the species recorded are the following: Automeris janus (Cra- mer, 1775), Automeris egeus (Cramer, 1775), Automeris hamata Schaus, 1906, Automeris duchartrei Bouvier, 1936, Automeris liberia (Cramer, 1780), Automeris curvilinea Schaus, 1906,,

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A PROVISIONAL LIST OF THE SATURNIIDS OF OLIVA (MUYO AREA, DEPARTMENT OF AMAZONAS, PERU)

nausica (Cramer, 1779), Automerula auletes (Herrich-Schäffer, [1854]), sp., simillima Jones, 1907, avia (Stoll, 1780), Dirphia fraterna (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874), hir- cia (Cramer, 1775) and eumedidoides (Vuillot, 1892).

Saturniinae

Only four species of are here listed for this locality, satellita Walker, 1865, erycina erycina (Shaw, [1796]), Rothschildia hesperus hesperus (Linnaeus, 1758) and Rothschildia aurota aurota (Cramer, 1775). Although it is only a provisional list, the species recorded in this pre-Andean site confirm that the fauna of this altitudinal belt is mainly characterized by Amazonian species. Excluding Oxyteninae, a total of 33 species are shared with the fauna recorded for the Department of Loreto (RACHELI & CA- LLEGARI, 1996, 1997). However, this picture must be viewed in the light of the present list which is an underestimation of the Saturniid fauna present in this area. The number of species of various genera (e.g., Arsenura, Automeris, Hylesia, Dirphia or Cerodirphia) will necessarily increase when further re- searches will be made in this area.

Notes on an undetermined female of Automeris from SE Peru

Fig. 1.– Female of Automeris sp. probably near rostralis Lemaire, 2002. Upperside.

Automeris rostralis has been recently described and figured by LEMAIRE (2002) on male speci- mens from Madre de Dios (SE Peru) and from . In the external pattern, this species seems one of the several known morphs of Automeris midea (Maassen, 1885) but it is larger. On the basis of the male genitalia, LEMAIRE (2002) arranged Automeris rostralis within the hamata subgroup while Automeris midea belongs to the bilinea subgroup. In the last years, a quantity of material from the Madre de Dios department (SE Peru) have been collected. The majority of these specimens came from two or three si-

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tes located at different altitudes but they are all labelled from a single locality (“Salvación, Río Manu”). For this reason, the typical species of moderate elevations (1000-1600 m) are mixed with material co- llected at lowest elevations (500-800 m). It is obvious that it is a remarkable problem. Among Saturniid specimens from the Madre de Dios department, we have had the opportunity to examine some males of Automeris rostralis and also an undetermined female which is here tentatively assigned to this species. This female (Fig. 1) is similar to the female of Automeris midea (Maassen, 1885) but it differs for va- rious features of the external morphology mainly those of the hindwing. A further comparison has been made with Automeris cinctistriga (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874), a species recorded from SE Peru, but it shows differences also from it. The female depicted in fig. 1 seems very similar to the female of Auto- meris bilinea tamphilus Schaus, 1892 figured by LEMAIRE (2002: pl. 40, fig. 3) but this latter species is known to occur only in SE Brazil. Although we are not able to confirm if it is the female of Automeris rostralis, further material must be examined to evaluate the present conjecture.

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L. R. T. R. Via G. Valmarana, 66 Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e dell’ Uomo I-00139 Rome Università di Roma “La Sapienza” ITALIA / ITALY Viale dell’Università, 32 E-mail: [email protected] I-00185 Rome ITALIA / ITALY

(Recibido para publicación / Received for publication 31-III-2005) (Revisado y aceptado / Revised and accepted 20-IV-2005)

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