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The Tigermoths (Erebidae, Arctiinae, Arctiini) of Papua Indonesia
by Rob de Vos
Amerila arthusibertrandi (Guérin-Méneville, 1830)
[Chelonia arthus-bertrand Guérin-Méneville, 1830] (type: not located)
synonyms:
arthus-bertrand Guérin-Méneville, 1830 (invalid spelling)
saucia Boisduval, 1832 [type: Offack (Waigeo), not located]
Note the yellow foamy secretion on the thorax, a smelly defense reaction
Distribution
STATUS: Widely distributed in New Guinea, New Britain, Moluccas, Aru and Sulawesi.
PAPUA LOCALITIES: Waigeo: Offack, Camp Nok; New Guinea: Depapre, Genyem, Mt. Kunupi (Kobowre Mts.), Meja Reserve, Mokwam, Nabire district, Ninay Valley, Nomnagihe, Setekwa River, Utakwa River, Walmak (Nipsan), Warkapi, Wasior. Details in gazetteer.
EXTERNAL DISTRIBUTION: Moluccas, Aru, Sulawesi, Papua New Guinea (including the Bismarck Archipelago).
DATA SOURCES: BMNH, CMWM, KSP, ZMAN. Literature (see below).
Literature refering to Papua records
Boisduval, J.B.A.D. de, 1832. Voyage de decouvertes de l'Astrolabe, execute par ordre du Roi, pendant les annees 1826-1829, sous le commandement de M.J. Dumont d'Urville. Faune Entomologique de l'Ocean Pacifique, avec l'illustration des insectes nouveaux recueillis pendant le voyage. Premiere Partie. Lepidopteres: 267 pp., J. Tastu, Paris.
Druce, H., 1901. Descriptions of some new species of Heterocera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7)7: 74-79.
Guérin-Méneville, F.C., 1830. In: M.L.I. Duperrey. Voyage autour du monde, exécuté par Ordre du Roi, sur la Corvette de sa Majesté, la Coquille, pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825. 2(2). Premiere division. Crustacés, Arachnides et insectes : 9-319, atlas & 21 plates. Arthus Bertrand, Paris.
Hampson, G.F., 1901. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum 3. Catalogue of the Arctiadae (Arctianae) and Agaristidae in the collection of the British Museum: 690 pp. British Museum, London.
Hampson, G.F., 1920. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae. Supplement, volume 2. Catalogue of the Lithosiadae (Arctianae) and Phalaenoididae in the collection of the British Museum: 619 pp. British Museum, London.
Häuser, C.L., 1993. A critical catalogue of species-group names of the genus Amerila Walker, 1855 (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae). Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo 13(3a): 365-392.
Rothschild, L.W., 1914. In: Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 10: Spinner und Schwarmer des Indo-Australischen Gebiets, 236-263. A. Kernen, Stuttgart.
Strand, E., 1919. Lepidopterorum Catalogus 22: Arctiidae: Subfam. Arctiinae: 1-416. W. Junk, Berlin.
Swinhoe, C., 1892. Catalogue of Eastern and Australian Lepidoptera Heterocera in the collection of The Oxford Museum, part I, Sphinges and Bombyces: 324 pp. At The Clarendon Press, Oxford.
Zamesov, A.N. & O.G. Gorbunov, 2014. To the knowledge of Macroheterocera of Southeast Asia and New Guinea. III. Tiger moths (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae: Arctiinae) of Papua Province, Indonesia. Biodiversity, Biogeography and Nature Conservation in Wallacea and New Guinea 2: 437-448.
