DISCOVERED BY DILEEP SANDEEPAN - "Paranerita maculata sandeepani"

STORY

Dileep Sandeepan Rayagiri visited us a few years ago in a group reservation of 5 people coming with Amazon Adventures Travel Agency. This group of explorers from India residing in the United States stayed at Refugio Amazonas in May 2016. All participated in the Discovering new species activity with Wired Amazon, but only three were lucky enough to discover a new species for the world, so they decided to combine their family names of two of them and part of the first name of the third friend: Sandeepani, hence the name.

Travel with purpose doing citizen science in the Amazon discovering new species

SPECIMEN DETAILS

Sex: Male
Reproduction: Sexual
Life Stage: Adult
Wingspan 24mm
Length 10mm

COLLECTION DETAILS

Collectors: Dileep Sandeepan Rayagiri
Habitat: Lowland rainforest
Sampling Protocol: Light trap
Elevation: 225 m

GEOGRAPHY

Country: Peru
Province/State: Madre de Dios
Region/County: Tambopata
Sector: Condenado
Exact Site: Albergue Refugio Amazonas
Lat/Lon: -12.875, -69.4097

TAXONOMY

Identifier Juan Grados
Identification Method: Morphology
Identifier Institution: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Museo de Historia Natural
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Paranerita
Species: Paranerita maculata sandeepani