Amaxia beata
DISTRIBUTION: Central & South America.
TYPE LOCALITY: French Guyana.
BELIZE RECORDS: Augustine; Lamanai; La Milpa; Las Cuevas.
METHOD OF IDENTIFICATION: illustrated in black and white by Watson (1971)
fig 6c (adult) and figs 89a & b (male genitalia). Adult illustrated in black
and white by Hampson (1920) p. 65, text fig. 16.
NOTES: This identification is quite
certain, as confirmed by comparison of the genitalia with figures of the genitalia
of the Type Specimen from French Guyana in Watson (1971). The facies
are also quite distinctive.
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