1. Lista anotada de Bombicoideos (Lepidoptera: Bombycoidea) del Parque Nacional Natural Utría, Chocó, Colombia.
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Prada Lara, Liliana, Correa-Carmona, Yenny, Clavijo Giraldo, Alejandra, Andrés Vargas, Sergio, and Dumar Parrales, Ariel
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SPHINGIDAE , *INSECT traps , *MANDUCA , *NATIONAL parks & reserves , *LUNAR phases , *MERCURY vapor , *COLLECTION & preservation of biological specimens - Abstract
We present an annotated checklist of the species of Bombycidae, Saturniidae and Sphingidae collected in the Utría National Natural Park, Chocó, Colombia. We used mercury light trap for 31 days in four different habitats. We found 35 species: 19 Saturniidae, 15 Sphingidae and 1 Bombycidae. Eighteen species are recorded for the first time in the department of Chocó. These include the Chocó endemic Syssphinx chocoensis, the first specimen of Manduca dalica dalica, in a Colombian collection, and the fifth instar of Isognathus scyron. Our results agree with the lunar phobia hypothesis. This work is the first approach to the diversity of these families in the Utría National Park. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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