Aguna coelus (Stoll, 1781)

Common Name:
Stoll´s Aguna

Synonyms:

Papilio coelus (Stoll, 1781)

Goniurus caelus (Draudt, 1922) - misspelling

Goniurus caelns (Rocha, 1954) - misspelling

Goiniurus [sic] ceelus (J. Zikán & W. Zikán, 1968) - misspelling

Natural History:

Specimen collected in forest by examining the vegetation. In the central Amazon was collected in the absence of army ant.

Distribution:
Brasil: Amazonas, Pará, Rondônia; Colombia; Costa Rica; Guyane française; Panamá; Trinidad and Tobago

Occurence Period:

July - December

Feeding Adult:

Observed on bird droppings (for other species see Austin & Mielke, 1997)

Feeding Caterpillars:

Aguna spp. has recorded as plant-host species of Annonaceae, Burseraceae, Erythroxylaceae, Leguminosae (Caesalpinioideae and Mimosoideae), Rutaceae, Styracaceae (see Beccaloni et al. 2008).

Color:
brown, green, cream

Habitat:
forest, rainforest undisturbed

Publications:

Lamas G. (2004):

Atlas of neotropical Lepidoptera - Checklist: Part 4A Hesperioidea - Papilionoidea. Book.: 1-439

Austin G.T., Mielke O.H.H. (1997):

Hesperiidae of Rondônia, Brazil: Aguna Willians (Pyrginae), with a partial revision and descriptions of new species from Panama, Ecuador, and Brazil. Revta bras. Zool. 14(4): 889-965