Dunama

Dunama is a genus of moths of the family Notodontidae described by William Schaus in 1912.

Dunama
Dunama janewaldronae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Notodontidae
Subfamily:
Nystaleinae
Genus:
Dunama

Schaus, 1912[1]
Species

See text

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. Edward L. 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 and D. angulinea was reared in Panama for study in 1976.[2] One additional species was recently described by James S. Miller and Paul 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.[3]

Species

The genus includes the following species:

References
  1. Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Dunama Schaus 1912". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016.
  2. http://images.peabody.yale.edu/lepsoc/jls/1970s/1976/1976-30(3)188-Todd.pdf
  3. Cryptic species within cryptic moths: new species of Dunama Schaus (Notodontidae, Nystaleinae) in Costa Rica


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