Saturnídeos (lepidoptera, saturniidae) ocorrentes no Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil

• Autor(a) principal: Nunes, Fabrício Guerreiro
• Data de Publicação: 2006
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional PUCRS
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10923/5365
• topic: ZOOLOGIA; LEPIDÓPTEROS - RIO GRANDE DO SUL; MARIPOSAS; ENTOMOLOGIA

The family Saturniidae includes moths of medium the great load. About 1. 300 species described, disposed all over the world with a lot of species happening in the tropics of the New World. Tends as objective the contribution for the knowledge of the lepidopterofauna of Rio Grande do Sul, they were analyzed and collected insects belonging to the 11 physiographic areas of the State, observed museum collections, besides search of existent data in literature. They were also lifted up the representatives' main morphologic aspects for the preparation of an analytical table and respective dicotomical key. Species of Arsenurinae had been listed 12, 30 species of Ceratocampinae and 10 species of Saturniinae and already added 2 species to the recent listing of Hemileucinae. The species Caio romulus, Callodirphia arpi, Copaxa decrescens, Copiopteryx derceto, Dirphia dolosa, Dysdaemonia brasiliensis, Citheronia brissotii brissotii, Eacles bertrandi, Eacles ducalis, Eacles mayi, Mielkesia paranaensis, Paradaemonia platydesmia, Rhescyntis pseudomartii, Scolesa totoma e Titaea tamerlan tamerlan are distinguished as new registers for State.