Dudusinae

Prada-Lara, Liliana, Jiménez-Bolívar, Andrea C. & St Laurent, Ryan A., 2023, Prominent moths (Lepidoptera: Notodontidae) of Colombia, Zootaxa 5284 (3), pp. 401-444 : 428

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5284.3.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7930398

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scientific name

Dudusinae
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Dudusinae

Dudusinae is a small subfamily with ca. 80 species worldwide.Adults can be recognized by their typically large size, and unique genitalia, with the transtilla curved downwards connecting ventrally to the juxta ( Miller et al. 2018). Becker (2014) included five genera in the subfamily, however, the only Dudusinae representative in Colombia is Crinodes ( Figure 3J View FIGURE 3 ) (Eudmoa Ḩbner, [1819] belongs to the Nystaleinae , not Dudusinae as in Becker (2014) (St Laurent et al. unpublished data)). Crinodes can be recognized by simple antennae in females, whereas males have fasciculate antennae and a long caudal tuft of pedicellate scales in the abdomen ( Miller et al. 2018).

Nine species of Crinodes have been reported in Colombia. The departmental distribution of the genus in the country is wide since the group can be found from the North (Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta) to the South (Leticia, Amazonas). Likewise, the altitude distribution is vast, there are records from 0 (mangroves) to 3360 (Páramos) m a.s.l ( Prada 2020).

Crinodes larvae have a long spinneret ( Figure 5D View FIGURE 5 ) and are Rhamnaceae specialists, known host plants records include 10 species of Gouania Jacq ( Table 3 View TABLE 3 ). Prada (2020) stated the hypothesis of Rhamnus L. as a possible host plant for these moths in the country, however, this has not yet been corroborated.

Miller (1991) predicted that Crinodes and other New World Dudusines drink mammalian tears, probably to obtain essential salts. This prediction is corroborated in Colombia. Through social media, Indiana Cristóbal Ríos Málaver posted videos and photographs of Crinodes jedha Schintlmeister, 2019 drinking eye tears and nose mucus.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Notodontidae

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