Hymenia perspectalis

DISTRIBUTION: Worldwide (in warmer regions).
TYPE LOCALITY: 'Europe'.
BELIZE RECORDS: Greenhills.
METHOD OF IDENTIFICATION: by comparison with specimens in my collection from the West Indies identified as this species by Dr. Eugene Munroe of Ottawa.
NOTES: this is a common and widespread species unlikely to be mistaken for anything else. The larva is the 'Beet Webworm', a minor pest of beets.

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