MOTHS OF BELIZE
SPECIES LISTS BY FAMILY
5. Dalceridae

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The Dalceridae are a small family of some 84 species confined to the New World tropics. Like the Limacodidae and Megalopygidae the adult moths are small to medium-sized with broad, rounded wings and short, fat hairy abdomens. This family is distinguished from the other two by various technical features of which the gelatinous tubercles covering the slug-like larva are probably the most obvious. This family has been completely revised and all adults and genitalia illustrated by Miller (1994). In addition to the single species which I have captured so far in Belize, Miller (1994) lists the species Paracraga argentea Schaus and Dalcerides alba Druce as specifically from Belize and the further species Dalcerides chirma Schaus ; Dalcerides dulciola Dyar ; Dalcerides mesoa Druce and Paracraga pulverina Schaus as having ranges which include Mexico, Guatemala and/or Honduras and may be found in Belize in the future.

I have collected only one species of this family in Belize to date, as listed below - please click on the species name to go to a colour illustration of the adult and brief information on the species.


Acraga coa Schaus 1892.

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