SUBFAMILY HEMILEUCINAE

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Gallery 1 - Automeris and Catharisa
FIGURE 1a - Automeris amoena  - Hotel Tirol, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith May 2007).
FIGURE 1b - Automeris basalis - PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Alberto Esquivel March 2008 - ECOSARA Biodiversity Database).
FIGURE 1c - Automeris basalis larva - PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Alberto Esquivel November 2007 - ECOSARA Biodiversity Database).
FIGURE 1d - Automeris naranja - PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith March 2008 - ECOSARA Biodiversity Database).
FIGURE 1e - Automeris naranja (upper rest, lower defence display) - Hotel Tirol, Departamento Itapúa (Paul August 2006).
FIGURE 1f - Automeris naranja larva - PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Chris Elder left Alberto Esquivel right December 2007 - ECOSARA Biodiversity Database).
FIGURE 1g - Catharisa cerina (upper rest, lower defence display) - Estancia Laguna Blanca, Departamento San Pedro (Paul Smith September 2006).
Catharisa cerina was previously known to science only by two specimens collected over 100 years ago.
Gallery 2 - Dirphia, Gamelia, Lonomia, Molippa and Pseudautomeris
FIGURE 2a - Dirphia avia (upper rest, lower defence display) - Hotel Tirol, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith May 2007)
FIGURE 2b - Gamelia catharina female - PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Alberto Esquivel bottom left February 2008, others Paul Smith March 2008 - ECOSARA Biodiversity Database).
FIGURE 2c - Leucanella aspera - IBIS Collection, Pilar, Departamento Ñeembucú (Andres Contreras undated).
FIGURE 2d - Lonomia obliqua male - PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith March 2008 - ECOSARA Biodiversity Database).
FIGURE 2e - Lonomia obliqua male - PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith September 2007 - ECOSARA Biodiversity Database).
FIGURE 2f - Lonomia obliqua female - PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith September 2007 - ECOSARA Biodiversity Database).
FIGURE 2g - Molippa simillima - PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Chris Elder November 2007 - ECOSARA Biodiversity Database).
FIGURE 2h - Pseudautomeris luteata - Hotel Tirol, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith August 2006).
FIGURE 2i - Pseudautomeris luteata larva - Hotel Tirol, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith August 2006).
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