Dunama

Dunama
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Hexapoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Notodontidae
Subfamily:	Nystaleinae
Genus:	Dunama Schaus 1912

Dunama is a genus of moths of the Notodontidae family.

Taxonomy

Schaus established the genus Dunama in 1912 for a group of small, relatively drab, mottled and tree-bark patterned, brown notodontid moths with a black orbicular spot. Todd revised the genus whose distribution extends from Mexico to Amazonian Brazil in 1976. He described two new species and listed two species, D. angulinea and D. tuna from Costa Rica. One additional species was recently described by Miller and Thiaucourt from Ecuador in 2011. The genus traditionally has been placed in the Nystaleinae, but that placement remains provisional because species of Dunama lack the characteristic morphological traits of most nystaleines. Additionally, all known caterpillars of Dunama feed on monocots (Musaceae, Marantaceae, Heliconiaceae, Arecaceae), a trait rarely encountered in the Notodontidae.

Species

• Dunama angulinea Schaus, 1912
• Dunama biosise Chacón, 2013
• Dunama claricentrata (Dognin, 1916)
• Dunama indereci Chacón, 2013
• Dunama janecoxae Chacón, 2013
• Dunama janewaldronae Chacón, 2013
• Dunama jessiebancroftae Chacón, 2013
• Dunama jessiebarronae Chacón, 2013
• Dunama jessiehillae Chacón, 2013
• Dunama mattonii J.S. Miller, 2011
• Dunama mexicana Todd, 1976
• Dunama ravistriata Todd, 1976
• Dunama tuna (Schaus, 1901)

References

• Todd, E.L., 1976: A revision of the genus Dunama Schaus (Notodontidae). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 30 (3): 188-196. Full article: [1].
• Miller, J.S. & P. Thiaucourt, 2011: Diversity of Prominent Moths (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea: Notodontidae) in the Cloud Forests of Northeastern Ecuador, with Descriptions of 27 New Species. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 104 (6): 1033-1077. Abstract: doi:10.1603/AN10141.