MOTHS OF BELIZE
SPECIES LISTS BY FAMILY
12(b). Geometridae: Geometrinae

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SUBFAMILY DESCRIPTION
The 'Emeralds' (GEOMETRINAE) are all small or quite small species (15-30 mm in wingspan) and, as their name implies, are almost all a bright emerald green in ground coloration, occasionally with an additional brown or golden-brown wing maculation. The works by Pitkin (1993) and Cook and Scoble (1995) illustrate and catalogue about half of the aproximately 450 species of neotropical Geometrinae (Cook & Scoble, 1995). For the remaining genera I rely at present upon the outdated and frequently wrong Seitz (1925). I am grateful to M. Claude Herbulot of Paris for having looked at some of my material and for helping me with identifications where noted (the large numbers of errors which remain are mine and not his!)

BELIZE SPECIES
I illustrate here all of the species of this subfamily I currently have in my Belize collection - 32 species - of which half are identified or partially identified, as listed below. Please click on any underlined species names to go to a colour illustration of the adult (and sometimes its genitalia) and brief information on the species.

The genus Synchlora

  • Synchlora expulsata Walker 1861 ssp. atrapoides Prout 1932
  • Synchlora gerularia Hubner 1823
  • Synchlora superaddita Prout 1913
  • Synchlora sp. (frondaria?) Guenee 1858

    The genus Oospila
  • Oospila depressa Warren 1905
  • Oospila tricamerata Prout 1916
  • Oospila venezuelata Walker 1861 form partita Prout 1912

    The genus Tachyphyle
  • Tachyphyle acuta (?) Butler 1881
  • Tachyphyle albisparsa (?) Warren 1907
  • Tachyphyle basiplaga Walker 1861

    The genus Pyrochlora
  • Pyrochlora rhanis Cramer 1777

    The genus Lissochlora
  • Lissochlora manostigma Dyar 1912

    The genus Neagathia
  • Neagathia corruptata Felder & Rogenhofer

    The genus Nemoria
  • Nemoria sp. nr. punctilinea Dognin

    The genus Phrudocentra
  • Phrudocentra janeira Schaus 1897

    The genus Chloropteryx
  • Chloropteryx opalaria(?) Guenee 1858

    Unknown genera
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