Mapeta xanthomelas

DISTRIBUTION: South and Central America; Antilles.
TYPE LOCALITY: Venezuela.
BELIZE RECORDS: Augustine.
METHOD OF IDENTIFICATION: illustrated in colour on the endpiece plate of Heppner (1995).
NOTES: a very characteristic species unlikely to be confused for anything else in this family - although several species in other families (eg Napata walkeri in the Arctiidae/Ctenuchinae) are involved in a mimicry ring involving this general colour pattern.

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