Anicla infecta

DISTRIBUTION: North, Central and South America; Antilles.
TYPE LOCALITY: 'Europe' (error for North or South America).
BELIZE RECORDS: Augustine; Greenhills.
METHOD OF IDENTIFICATION: by comparison with specimens in my collection from the West Indies identified as this species by Bernard Lalanne-Cassou. Adult illustrated by Covell (1984) plate 19, fig. 16.
NOTES: the larva is the ‘Green Cutworm’ - a destructive pest of grasses, tobacco and a range of low plants.

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