Arsenura sylla maranhensis Brechlin & Meister, 2013

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 sylla maranhensis Brechlin & Meister, 2013 ( Figure 1C )

Distribution: Brazil ( Maranhão), ( Brechlin and Meister, 2013). Host plants: Hirtella racemosa Lam. ( Chrysobalanaceae ), Luehea candida Moç & Sessé ex DC ( Malvaceae ), Calycophyllum candidissimum (Valh) DC. ) ( Rubiaceae ) ( Mejia et al., 2020). Registration: Brazil – Maranhão, Mirador State Park, Geraldina Base, light trap, 20-24.xii.2006, J.C.Silva, 12 specimens; idem 11-15.xi.2007, J.C. Silva 7 specimens; idem 05-08.i.2008, J.C. Silva & M. J. Almeida-Holanda, 2 specimens; idem 22.ii-01.iii.2009, F. Limeira-de-Oliveira, 1 specimen; idem Cágados Base, 26.xi-03.xii.2011, 4 specimens.

Titaea tamerlan amazonensis Lemaire, 1980

( Figure 1D )

Distribution: Brazil (Amazonas, Bahia, Pará, Mato Grosso), Colombia, Ecuador, French Guyana, Guiana, Suriname, Peru ( Lemaire, 1980, Miranda et al., 2015). New record for Maranhão. Host plants: Bombax L., Brachychiton populneus (Schott & Endl) R. Br. , Ceiba pentandra (L.) Gaertn., Chorisia speciosa A.St. -Hil. (synonymy= Ceiba speciosa ), Goethalsia meiantha (Donn. Sm.) Burret , Pachira aquatica Aubl. , Pachira quinata (Jacq.) W.S.Alverson (synonymy= Bombax ceiba ) e Tilia platyphyllos Scop. ( Malvaceae ) ( Mejia et al., 2020). Registration: Brazil – Maranhão, Mirador State Park, Geraldina Base, light trap, 11-15.xi.2007, F. Limeira-de-Oliveira & J.C. Silva, 2 specimens; idem Maranhão, Mirador, Sítio Melancia, F. Limeira-de-Oliveira & J.C. Silva, 1 specimen.

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.