MOTHS OF BELIZE
SPECIES LISTS BY FAMILY
4. Limacodidae
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The Limacodidae ('Slug Moths') are a small family of some 1,000 species worldwide,
reaching their greatest diversity in the tropics. Like the Megalopygidae, adults
are small to medium in size and have broad, rounded wings and hairy bodies. The
larvae have a slug-like 'glassy' appearance and move with a wave-like motion (leading
to their common name of 'Slug Moths') or are covered in stinging hairs. Many are of
economic importance as defoliators of crop plants.
I have collected nineteen species of this family in Belize to date
but can give very provisional identifications for only four of them, 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.
Semyra? species indet.
Perola monomania Dyar 1915
Perasa? species nr. laonome Druce 1887
Euclea norba Druce 1887
Unknown genera
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