Bolivian
Butterflies Checklist
sitio 145
Dayflying Moths from Yungas
first update d. 27 March 2010
last update d. 9 February 2018
Redactor: Lars Andersen
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View from
Kori
Wayku Inca Trail, Coroico, Yungas, Bolivia d. 2 february
2010. Photographer; Lars Andersen
                                                        

Clearwing Tiger Moth, Hyalurga
fenestra (Linné, 1788).
Caranavi,
Yungas, Bolivia february 5, 2018. Photographer; Peter Møllmann
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Giant Sugarcane-Borer, Castnia
licus
Fabricius (Castniidae).
The caterpillar of this gaudy moth bores into the
stems of sugar-cane. Castnia genus of dayflying moths,
together with other Castniids, were a one time grouped
with the butterflies they resemble in antennal
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Ctenuchidae.
Many of the 3000
species of this family of moths are mimics of
various genera of wasp. |
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Chetone Boisduval (Hypsidae).
About 11 species are
place in this neotropical genus of day-flying
moths. Most species are apparently mimetic
partners of various species of Heliconiinae, Ithomiinae and other butterflies and moths. |
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Darna Walker (Hypsidae).
There are a present 18 species exclusively
neotropical genus of moths. One group of
brilliantly colored species which includes D.
colorata,
is a model for species of Lucillella, a genus of Riodinidae butterflies. Another
group is mimetically associated with Dioptidae. |
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Urania Fabricius (Uraniidae).
This is the only New World representative of its
family. In colour patern and particularly in
coloration it is similar to the African and
Madagascan genus Chrysiridia. There are about 8
species, all solely neotropical in distrubution. |
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Erateina
julia. (Subfamily Larentiinae).
comprises of about 80 known
species. Most are dark brown on the upperside,
with a white patch or bar on the forewing. The
hindwings are often marked with streaks of yellow
or red, but in some species are plain brown. |
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Pseudatteria Walsingham (Tortricidae).
This is a genus of micro-moths with large,
brightly coloured species, probaly some of the
most remarkable-looking of all the neotropical Tortricids. Since all the species
of Pseudatteria are brightly coloured
and conspicuously patterned it is assumed that
they are the distasteful models and the
species in other genera, which look like them,
the mimics. |
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Linnaeus's Joker, Cyllopoda
jatropharia (Linnaeus, 1758).
It seems likely that Cyllopoda could be members of a
mimicry complex that involves several genera of
yellow and black diurnal moths including Formiana,
Xanthiris, Seriocastnia and Myonia; and butterflies such as
the metalmarks Riodinidae; Chamaelimnas
briola
and the skippers Pyrginae; Cabirus
procas.
The genus Cyllopoda comprises of 16 species.
They are members of the family Geometridae, subfamily Sterrhinae, which is itself
comprised of over 2800 species worldwide. Few
however are as striking as the yellow/black Cyllopoda genus! |
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Sacramento Alto
between Yolosa and Unduarvi. 2700 m.a. 30th
January 2015.
Photographer; Peter Møllmann |

Flannel Moth, Family: Megalopygidae. Caranavi december 2014. Photographer; Peter Møllmann
  
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Garwood,
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