Neonerita haemasticta Dognin

 

 Family: Erebidae

Subfamily: Arctiinae

Tribe: Arctiini

Subtribe: Phaegopterina

Host plants:

  • Columnea ericae (Gesneriaceae)
  • Chusquea scandens (Poaceae)
  • Rubus sp. (Rosaceae)
  • Miconia sp. (Melastomataceae)
  • Tibouchina lepiota (Melastomataceae)

 

 

 

Collection site: Various, Napo Province

 

Male (dorsal view)

 

Male (ventral view)

 

Female (dorsal view)

 

Female (ventral view)

Photos & Determinations of adults: Suzanne Rab Green
Photos of immatures: CAPEA collections

 

LIFE HISTORY DATA


         
         

Caterpillar common name:


      
 
"Montura blanca con brochas grandes"
" Rayas amarillas espalda brochas blancas"


         
         

Caterpillar behavior & description:


      
The larvae of this species are solitary feeders.

 

Rearing results and development time:

         
 
 

         
         

Host plants:


      

 

  • Columnea ericae (Gesneriaceae)
  • Chusquea scandens (Poaceae)
  • Rubus sp. (Rosaceae)
  • Miconia sp. (Melastomataceae)
  • Tibouchina lepiota (Melastomataceae)


         
         

Parasitoids:


      

 

Predators:

         

Collection sites:

 
Caterpillars were collected inside primary forests, partially reforested pastures and next to roads along an altitudinal transect from 400m (Tena) to 3500m (Papallacta) in the vicinity of the Yanayacu Biological Station and Center for Creative Studies (YBS: S 00° 35.9' W 77° 53.4': 2100 m), 5km west of Cosanga, Napo province of eastern Ecuador.  

 

Voucher locations & numbers:

 
@ American Museum of Natural History : : 25836, 38466, 42341,
@ University of Nevada Reno (UNR): n.a.

 

Adult identification status:

Dissections:

 
Compared with male Lectotype No. 30524 U.S.N.M., slide AW86.
 
Specimen dissected by S. Rab Green:
Collected (YY) male located @ , genitalia slide SRG #72

 

Original description of adult:

 
Dognin, P. 1906. Hétérocères nouveaux de l'Amérique du Sud. Annales de la
Société Entomologique de Belgique 50: 181.

 

Type locality:

Peru: Described from an unspecified number of males from Limbani and Agaualani, Carabaya, southeastern Peru.

 

Known distribution range:

ML> DY>