Arsenura beebei Fleming, 1945

Santos, A. A., Serrão, J. E., Zanetti, R., Leite, G. L. D., Wilcken, C. F., Zanuncio, J. C., Northeast, The, Forest, Amazon, Forest, Atlantic, Collection, Zoological, Caxias, Campus, Maranhão, Universidade Estadual do & The, Brazil., 2022, Arsenura and Titaea (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae: Arsenurinae): new records for the Cerrado of Northeast Brazil, Brazilian Journal of Biology (e 264670) 82, pp. 1-4 : 3

Arsenura beebei Fleming, 1945 ( Figure 1A )

Distribution: Brazil (Amapá), Guyana, French Guiana, Venezuela ( Lemaire, 1980), and Trinidad and Tobago ( Kelly and Cock, 2018). Host plants: Cecropia peltata L ( Urticaceae ) ( Kelly and Cock, 2018). New record for the Maranhão state and Northeast Brazil. Host plants: no information. Registration: Brazil – Maranhão, Mirador State Park, Geraldina Base, light trap, 17-21.ii.2007, F. Limeira-de-Oliveira & J.C. Silva, 1 specimen, idem 08-13. iii.2008, 6 specimens.

Figures

Figure 1. Adults of Arsenura beebei (A), Arsenura armida armida (B), Arsenura sylla maranhensis (C), Titaea tamerlan amazonensis (D) and Titaea timur (A) (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae: Arsenurinae) collected in the Mirador State Park, Maranhão, Brazil, with a light trap.