Almeidaia aidaeMielke and Casagrande (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae): First Record for Paraguay

The hawkmoths (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Sphingidae) of Rancho Laguna Blanca, Departamento San Pedro, Paraguay with documentation of five new country records

“…Sustained inventory work by PLT at RLB has demonstrated the cross-taxon importance of the property at a national level, with numerous taxa currently recorded here that are not known to occur elsewhere in Paraguay (Cacciali et al 2013, Smith et al 2013a,b, Smith et al 2014, Brouard et al 2015, Smith et al 2016. RLB has been recognised as an Important Bird Area PY021 by Birdlife International (Guyra Paraguay 2008), proposed as an Important Area for Amphibians and Reptiles (Smith et al 2016) and proposed as an AZE site (Alliance for Zero Extinction).…”